William Least Heat-Moon

River-Horse (eBook, ePUB)

A Voyage Across America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

New York Times bestseller: "A coast-to-coast journey by way of great rivers, conducted by a contemporary master of travel writing" (Kirkus Reviews). In this memoir brimming with history, humor, and wisdom, the author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth "voyages across the country, from Atlantic to Pacific, almost entirely by its rivers, lakes and canals in a small outboard-powered boat" (San Francisco Chronicle). Setting off from New York Harbor aboard the boat he named Nikawa ("river horse" in Osage), in hopes of entering the Pacific near Astoria, Oregon, William Least Heat-Moon and his companion, Pilotis, struggle to cover some five thousand watery miles-more than any other cross-country river traveler has ever managed-often following in the wakes of our most famous explorers, from Henry Hudson to Lewis and Clark. En route, the voyagers confront massive floods, submerged rocks, dangerous weather, and their own doubts about whether they can complete the trip. But the hard days yield incomparable pleasures: strangers generous with help and eccentric tales, landscapes unchanged since Sacagawea 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. "Fizzes with intelligence and high spirits." -Outside "Propels the reader with historical vignettes, ecological and geological detail, and often hilarious encounters with local eccentrics." -Time

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547523682
• Artikelnr.: 52460567

Autorenporträt

Under the name of William Least Heat-Moon, William Trogdon is the author of the bestselling classics Blue Highways, PrairyErth, and River-Horse: AVoyage Across America. He lives in Columbia, Missouri.

Inhaltsangabe

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