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Riverman - An American Odyssey (Hardcover)
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Riverman - An American Odyssey (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R394
Discovery Miles 3 940
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'Brilliant, clear, and humane' Elizabeth Gilbert 'Miraculous and
hopeful' Emma Straub Riverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the
story of an extraordinary man and his puzzling disappearance, and
paints a picture of the singular spirit of America's riverbank
towns. 'The peace of mind I found, largely alone, on that
white-water mecca convinced me that life was capable of exquisite
pleasure and undefined meaning deep in the face of failure. The
experience itself is the reward.' Dick Conant On his forty-third
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 twenty years canoeing
thousands of miles of rivers and their innumerable smaller
tributaries, from one end of the country to the other. 'I can, and
I will!' he said. 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. Along the way he meets eccentrics and
ne'er-do-wells drawn straight from the pages of Mark Twain, a vast
network of friends and acquaintances who would forever remember
this brilliant and charming man even after a single meeting.
Riverman is the story of a restless soul who was as troubled as he
was charismatic, a contemporary folk hero who slips the moorings of
ordinary civilised life to tap into what Thoreau called 'a yearning
toward all wildness.' It is also a riveting portrait of an America
we rarely see: a nation of unconventional characters, small river
towns, and long forgotten waterways.
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