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**Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2018
and the Lonely Planet Adventure Travel Book of the Year 2019**
'Weymouth combines acute political, personal and ecological
understanding, with the most beautiful writing reminiscent of a
young Robert Macfarlane. He is, I have no doubt, a significant
voice for the future' Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times literary editor
'Adam Weymouth takes his place beside the great travel writers'
Susan Hill A captivating, lyrical account of an epic voyage by
canoe down the Yukon River. The Yukon River is almost 2,000 miles
long, flowing through Canada and Alaska to the Bering Sea. Setting
out to explore one of the most ruggedly beautiful and remote
regions of North America, Adam Weymouth journeyed by canoe on a
four-month odyssey through this untrammelled wilderness,
encountering the people who have lived there for generations. The
Yukon's inhabitants have long depended on the king salmon who each
year migrate the entire river to reach their spawning grounds. Now
the salmon numbers have dwindled, and the encroachment of the
modern world has changed the way of life on the Yukon, perhaps for
ever. Weymouth's searing portraits of these people and landscapes
offer an elegiac glimpse of a disappearing world. Kings of the
Yukon is an extraordinary adventure, told by a powerful new voice.
INTRODUCED BY ADAM WEYMOUTH, award-winning author of The Kings of
Yukon 'A wonderful book -- and a highly original contribution to
the literature of travel' PAUL THEROUX 'The Mississippi. Mighty,
muddy, dangerous, rebellious and yet a strong, fathering kind of
river. The river captured my imagination when I was young and has
never let go.' Mississippi Solo tells the story of one man's voyage
by canoe down the Mississippi River from its source in Minnesota to
the Gulf of Mexico - a longtime dream, and a journey of over 2,000
miles through the heart of America. Paddling into the Southern
states - going from 'where there ain't no black folks to where they
still don't like us much' - Eddy is confronted by the legacy of
slavery and modern racism, including an incident with a pair of
shotgun-toting bigots. There are also the dangers of passing
barges, wild dogs roaming the wooded shore, and navigating a
waterway that grows vaster, and more hazardous, every day. But Eddy
also encounters immense human kindness, friendship and hospitality,
as well as coming to know the majestic power - and the awesome
dangers - of the river itself. Mississippi Solo is an unforgettable
American adventure.
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