In late August 1998, Kim Trevathan and his dog, Jasper, set out by
canoe on a long, slow trip down the 652 miles of the Tennessee
River, the largest tributary of the Ohio. Trevathan wanted to
experience the river in its entirety, from Knoxville's narrow,
winding channel, which flows past rocky bluffs, to the wide-open
waters of Kentucky Lake at its lower end.
Over the course of the five-week voyage, Trevathan rediscovered the
people and places that made history on the Tennessee's banks. He
crossed the path of the explorer Meriwether Lewis along the Natchez
Trace, noted the sites of Ulysses S. Grant's Civil War battles, and
passed Hiwassee Island, the spot where a teenaged runaway named Sam
Houston lived with Cherokee Chief Jolly.
Trevathan also came to know the modern river's dwellers, including
a towboat pilot, two couples who traded in their landlocked homes
for life on the river, a campground owner, and a meteorologist for
NASA. He placed his life in the hands of U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers lock operators as he and Jasper navigated the river's
nine dams.
Paddling the Tennessee River is a powerful travel narrative that
captures the river's wild, turbulent, and defiant past and
confronts what it has become--an overused and overdeveloped series
of lakes. But first and foremost, the book is the story of a man
and his dog, riding low enough to smell the water and to discover
the promise of a slow river running through the southern heartland.
The Author: Kim Trevathan, who earned his M.F.A. in creative
writing at the University of Alabama, works as a new media writer
and producer and writes a column for the Maryville Daily Times. His
essays and short stories have been published in The Distillery, New
Millennium Writings, The Texas Review, New Delta Review, and Under
the Sun. He lives in Rockford, Tennessee.
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