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In the harsh winter of 1779, as the leader of a flotilla of
settlers, John Donelson loaded his family and thirty slaves into a
forty-foot flatboat at the present site of Kingsport, Tennessee.
Their journey into the wilderness led to the founding of a
settlement now known as Nashville-over one thousand river miles
away. In the fall of 2016, photographer John Guider retraced the
Donelson party's journey in his hand-built fourteen-and-a-half-foot
motorless rowing sailboat (named Adventure II after Donelson's
boat) while making a visual documentation of the river as it
currently exists 240 years later. This photo book contains more
than 120 striking images from the course of the journey, allowing
the reader to see how much has changed and how much has remained
untouched in the two and a half centuries since Donelson first took
to the water. Equally significant, the essays include long-ignored
contemporary histories of both the Cherokee whom Donelson
encountered and the slaves he brought with him, some of whom did
not survive the journey. From his platform just a few feet above
the waterline, Guider, a professional photographer, created images
of the thousand-mile trip along three of Tennessee's most notable
rivers.
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