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River-Horse: The Logbook of a Boat across America
by Heat-Moon, William Least
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395636264
- ISBN 13
- 9780395636268
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter green cloth, blue-grey paper covered boards, gilt titles on spine & dec. on front board, 506, [3] pp, b & w photos & maps. Top edge of DJ rear panel is a bit cockled; in Brodart archival cover. The author of Blue Highways travels across America in a small motorboat, via the Hudson River, Erie Canal, the Great Lakes, the Allegheny, Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers, small mountain streams, and the Salmon, Snake, and Columbia Rivers. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Near Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.
Synopsis
The author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth "takes us on a lifetime voyage full of imagery, insight and appreciation." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer In his most ambitious journey ever, William Least Heat-Moon sets off aboard a small boat named Nikawa ("river horse" in Osage) from the Atlantic at New York Harbor in hopes of entering the Pacific near Astoria, Oregon. He and his companion, Pilotis, struggle to cover some 5,000 watery miles, often following in the wakes of our most famous explorers, from Henry Hudson to Lewis and Clark. En route, the voyagers confront massive floods, dangerous weather, and their own doubts about whether they can complete the trip. But the hard days yield incomparable pleasures: generous strangers, landscapes untouched since Sacajawea saw them, riverscapes flowing with a lively past, and the growing belief that efforts to protect our lands and waters are beginning to pay off. Teeming with humanity, humor, and high adventure, River-Horse is an unsentimental and original arteriogram of our nation at the millennium.
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- Bookseller
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TRUS00008
- Title
- River-Horse: The Logbook of a Boat across America
- Author
- Heat-Moon, William Least
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395636264
- ISBN 13
- 9780395636268
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston & New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Travel United State Rivers Boats
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
- X weight
- 48 oz
- Size
- 23½ X 16 cm
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