Riverman : an American odyssey / Ben McGrath.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Hawley Public Library | 921 CON (Text) | 33500013593132 | New | Checked out | 06/14/2022 |
Record details
- ISBN: 9780451494009
- ISBN: 0451494008
- ISBN: 9781101973615
- ISBN: 1101973617
- Physical Description: 255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "The riveting story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years, solo canoed thousands of miles of American rivers--and then in 2016 disappeared off the coast of North Carolina"-- Provided by publisher. |
Reviews
Author Notes
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2021 December #1
*Starred Review* In 2014, McGrath had a chance encounter with river explorer Dick Conant, who paddled by McGrath's house on the Hudson River. For decades, Conant lived a vagabond life holding a variety of jobs while traveling solo along major rivers and tributaries, and on this occasion, he had recently embarked on a waterway journey from Upstate New York to Florida in a 14-foot canoe. McGrath, a staff writer for the New Yorker, wrote a piece about Conant for the magazine; then in November of that year, he received a call from North Carolina officials because his phone number was found in the gear of a missing canoer. Conant's body never turned up, and he is presumed dead. Consulting Conant's journals and a wealth of documents found in storage, along with the help of Conant's family members and a host of friends and one-time acquaintances, McGrath retraces the remarkable life of this gentle man whose life on the water touched so many. Riverman honors a free-spirited American naturalist and modern-day explorer (a blend of Forrest Gump, Huck Finn, and even Don Quixote) who shucked a conventional lifestyle for complete freedom, at significant personal cost. A masterpiece of narrative nonfiction. Copyright 2021 Booklist Reviews.
BEN McGRATH is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker. He lives outside New York City in a small town on the Hudson, with his wife and two children. This is his first book.
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