My Paddle to the Sea: Eleven Days on the River of the Carolinas (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book Ser.)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.70 (700 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820344206 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He’s getting intimate with the river that flows right past his home in the Spartanburg suburbs. Three months after a family vacation in Costa Rica ends in tragedy when two fellow rafters die on the flooded Rio Reventazón, John Lane sets out with friends from his own backyard in upcountry South Carolina to calm his nerves and to paddle to the sea.Like Huck Finn, Lane sees a river journey as a portal to change, but unlike Twain’s character, Lane isn’t escaping. Through it all, paddle stroke by paddle stroke, Lane is reminded why life and rivers have always been wedded together.. Lane ponders the sites of old cotton mills; abandoned locks, canals, and bridges; ghost towns fallen into decay a century before; Indian mounds; American Revolutionary and Civil War battle sites; nuclear power plants; and boat landings. Lane’s threehundred-mile float trip takes him down the Broad River and into Lake Marion before continuing down the Santee River. Along the way Lane recounts local history and spars with streamside literary presen
For another, the excursion itself, the people they encounter, as well as the sense of history the river grants further deepen his bond with the region. --Donna Chavez . This book is more than a chronicle and much more than a journal. In an age that values faster and faster travel, Lane’s river memoir affirms the great value of floating and observing, providing meaningful testimony to the merits of focusing on a deeper level to one’s life journey. Can there be such a thing as a memoir spanning a week-and-a-half’s length of time? Certainly Lane has become a
This is a great book. I grew up in Glendale S Linda Bodin This is a great book. I grew up in Glendale S.C and could relate to this book. Maybe we have crossed paths at sometime in I life's. A true southerner.. "new words on an old river" according to Wader. If you enjoy rivers this is a must read. Both a journal about paddling and a history of South Carolina rivers, John Lane has given us a delightful story to inspire others to paddle and to write.Seldom have I had a writer's work prompt me to re read other books. Midway I marked my place and retrieved from my library River of the Carolinas: The Santee by . Rich and never boring Lane's book is filled with information about South Carolina waterways, history, ecology issues and wildlife, as well as personal musings and wonderful tales of outdoor adventures. I've paddled and camped many of the places mentioned and thoroughly enjoyed his book.
Lane is an associate professor of English and environmental studies at Wofford College." . John Lane s books include "Waist Deep in Black Water," "The Woods Stretched for Miles," "Chattooga: Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River," and "Circling Home" (all Georgia); several volumes of poetry; and "The Best of the Kudzu Telegraph," a selection of his columns