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Journey on the James : three weeks through the heart of Virginia / Earl Swift.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swift, Earl, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canoes and canoeing.
- James River (Va.)--Description and travel.
- James River (Va.).
- James River Valley (Va.)--Description and travel.
- James River Valley (Va.).
- James River Valley (Va.)--History, Local.
- Swift, Earl, 1958---Travel--Virginia--James River.
- Swift, Earl.
- Swift, Earl, 1958-.
- Travel.
- Virginia--James River.
- Canoes and canoeing--Virginia--James River.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 239 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2001.
- Summary:
- A journalist paddles his canoe through 400 years of American history in this compelling confluence of adventure and anecdote. Pointing his bow through the frontier past, Swift glides past Confederate forts and POW camps, antebellum mills, ruined canals, vanished towns, and effluient-spewing industry. Illustrations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-239).
- ISBN:
- 0813920213
- OCLC:
- 45066337
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