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,…mehr
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
William Least Heat-Moon is the author of the classics Blue Highways and PrairyErth. He lives near the Missouri River outside Columbia, Missouri, where he is casting about for his next adventure.
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My Lotic Mates The Boat I. The Hudson River A Celestial Call to Board Up Rivers without Sources There Lurk the Skid Demon A Drowned River Where Mohicans Would Not Sleep Snowmelt and a Nameless Creek II. The Erie Canal The Pull of a Continent Released from the Necessity of Mundane Toil Like Jonah, We Enter the Leviathan Knoticals and Hangman's Rope We Sleep with a Bad-Tempered Woman Tossed by Fever III. The Lakes Hoisting the Blue Peter How the Sun Rose in the West to Set Me Straight IV. The Allegheny River An Ammonia Cocktail and a Sharp Onion-Knife A Flight of Eagles, an Iron Bed, and So Forth Unlimited Sprawl Area Zing, Boom, Tararel! V. The Ohio River Proving the White Man a Liar The Day Begins with a Goonieburger Enamel Speaks Along the Track of the Glaciers From Humdrummery on down toward Tedium A History of the Ohio in Three Words A River Coughed Up from Hell A Necessity of Topography and Heart Nekked and Without No Posies Eyeless Fish with Eight Tails The Great Omphalos in Little Egypt VI. The Mississippi River A Night Without Light on a River Without Exits The Ghost of the Mississippi Of Swampsuckers and Samaritans To the Tune of "Garry Owen" We Get Ready VII. The Lower Missouri River We Start Up the Great Missouri I Attach My Life to the Roots of a Cottonwood A Language with No Word for Flood Looking the River in the Eye Clustered Coincidences and Peach Pie Gone with the Windings Pilotis's Cosmic View Gets Bad News The Dream Lines of Thomas Jefferson A Water Snake across the Bow Sacred Hoops and a Wheel of Cheddar VIII. The Upper Missouri River We Find the Fourth Missouri The Phantom Ship of the Missouri Reeds How to Steal Indian Land A Conscientious Woman Flux, Fixes, and Flumdiddle Sitting Bull and the Broom of Heaven How to Be a Hell of a Riverman Yondering Up the Broomsticks Chances of Aught to Naught We Walk Under the Great River Why Odysseus Didn't Discover America Pilotis Concocts an Indian Name for God Trickles, Dribbles, and Gurglets My Life Becomes a Preposition Little Gods and Small Catechisms Eating Lightning Imprecating the Wind Into the Quincunx Planning for Anything Less than Everything Over the Ebullition Ex Aqua Lux et Vis Weaknesses in Mountains and Men A Nightmare Alley No Huzzahs in the Heart IX. The Mountain Streams We Meet Mister Eleven Eating the Force that Drives Your Life An Ark from God or a Miracle of Shoshones A Shameless Festal Board X. The Salmon River Bungholes and Bodacious Bounces XI. The Snake River My Hermaphroditic Quest Kissing a Triding Keepsake Messing About in Boats XII. The Columbia River The Far Side of the River Cocytus Place of the Dead Theater of the Graveyard A Badger Called Plan A Robot of the River A Taproom Fit for Raggedy Ann Salt to Salt, Tide to Tide An Afterword of Appreciation If You Want to Help
My Lotic Mates The Boat I. The Hudson River A Celestial Call to Board Up Rivers without Sources There Lurk the Skid Demon A Drowned River Where Mohicans Would Not Sleep Snowmelt and a Nameless Creek II. The Erie Canal The Pull of a Continent Released from the Necessity of Mundane Toil Like Jonah, We Enter the Leviathan Knoticals and Hangman's Rope We Sleep with a Bad-Tempered Woman Tossed by Fever III. The Lakes Hoisting the Blue Peter How the Sun Rose in the West to Set Me Straight IV. The Allegheny River An Ammonia Cocktail and a Sharp Onion-Knife A Flight of Eagles, an Iron Bed, and So Forth Unlimited Sprawl Area Zing, Boom, Tararel! V. The Ohio River Proving the White Man a Liar The Day Begins with a Goonieburger Enamel Speaks Along the Track of the Glaciers From Humdrummery on down toward Tedium A History of the Ohio in Three Words A River Coughed Up from Hell A Necessity of Topography and Heart Nekked and Without No Posies Eyeless Fish with Eight Tails The Great Omphalos in Little Egypt VI. The Mississippi River A Night Without Light on a River Without Exits The Ghost of the Mississippi Of Swampsuckers and Samaritans To the Tune of "Garry Owen" We Get Ready VII. The Lower Missouri River We Start Up the Great Missouri I Attach My Life to the Roots of a Cottonwood A Language with No Word for Flood Looking the River in the Eye Clustered Coincidences and Peach Pie Gone with the Windings Pilotis's Cosmic View Gets Bad News The Dream Lines of Thomas Jefferson A Water Snake across the Bow Sacred Hoops and a Wheel of Cheddar VIII. The Upper Missouri River We Find the Fourth Missouri The Phantom Ship of the Missouri Reeds How to Steal Indian Land A Conscientious Woman Flux, Fixes, and Flumdiddle Sitting Bull and the Broom of Heaven How to Be a Hell of a Riverman Yondering Up the Broomsticks Chances of Aught to Naught We Walk Under the Great River Why Odysseus Didn't Discover America Pilotis Concocts an Indian Name for God Trickles, Dribbles, and Gurglets My Life Becomes a Preposition Little Gods and Small Catechisms Eating Lightning Imprecating the Wind Into the Quincunx Planning for Anything Less than Everything Over the Ebullition Ex Aqua Lux et Vis Weaknesses in Mountains and Men A Nightmare Alley No Huzzahs in the Heart IX. The Mountain Streams We Meet Mister Eleven Eating the Force that Drives Your Life An Ark from God or a Miracle of Shoshones A Shameless Festal Board X. The Salmon River Bungholes and Bodacious Bounces XI. The Snake River My Hermaphroditic Quest Kissing a Triding Keepsake Messing About in Boats XII. The Columbia River The Far Side of the River Cocytus Place of the Dead Theater of the Graveyard A Badger Called Plan A Robot of the River A Taproom Fit for Raggedy Ann Salt to Salt, Tide to Tide An Afterword of Appreciation If You Want to Help
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