Paddling the Tennessee River : a voyage on easy water / Kim Trevathan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trevathan, Kim, 1958-

Series:

Outdoor Tennessee series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canoes and canoeing.

Tennessee River--Description and travel.

Tennessee River.

Canoes and canoeing--Tennessee River.

Physical Description:

xvii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2001]

Contents:

1. River of Ghosts 1

2. Something Big 11

3. The Plan 21

4. Uneasy Water: Fort Loudoun Lake 28

5. A Taste of the Old River: Watts Bar 39

6. Sam Houston, de Soto, and the Ghost of Ernest Hemingway 52

7. The Nickajack Nunehi 70

8. Hospitality, Milfoil, and Bodies in the Water 88

9. Big Ideas, Helmet Hair, and Aquamarine Barges 111

10. Short, Old Wilson Lake and the Camp Nazi 128

11. Born to Be Wild on the Trail of Tears 141

12. Off the River 147

13. "It Is So Hard to Die" 167

14. Big Dam Problems 181

15. "Ain't You Got No Sense?" 193

16. Eagle's Nest Nirvana 204

17. Drunk on the Wind 213

18. Boat People 221

19. Wizard of the Saddle 233

20. Curse of the Titanic 244

21. Night Paddling 258

22. "You Can't Be Like the Indians" 271

23. A Cautionary Tale 278.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1572331437

1572331445

OCLC:

48164543