Riverman : an American odyssey
McGrath, Ben2022
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On his 43rd birthday, Dick Conant, a golden boy who never quite grew up as those around him expected, stepped into a homemade boat to embark on a journey despite a gathering snowstorm. Among his possessions was a Gideon Bible and biographies of Einstein and Bismark. It was the beginning of an all-consuming odyssey by an unconventional man into the watery arteries of America, a journey to the unreported margins of society. He was to spend the next 20 years canoeing thousands of miles of rivers and their innumerable smaller tributaries, from one end of the country to the other. And then, in 2014, he disappeared. Not long before Conant's upturned canoe was found in a brackish North Carolina bay, Ben McGrath met Conant by chance as he paddled down the Hudson, headed for Florida. McGrath set out to find the people whose lives, like his own, had been touched by their encounter with the great river wanderer.
Main title:
Riverman : an American odyssey / Ben McGrath.
Author:
McGrath, Ben, author
Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2022.
Collation:
336 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780008221126 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1968409
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