Chattooga : descending into the myth of Deliverance river / John Lane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lane, John, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--Chattooga River Region (N.C.-Ga. and S.C.).

Natural history.

Chattooga River (N.C.-Ga. and S.C.)--History.

Chattooga River (N.C.-Ga. and S.C.).

Chattooga River (N.C.-Ga. and S.C.)--Description and travel.

Chattooga River Region (N.C.-Ga. and S.C.)--History.

Chattooga River Region (N.C.-Ga. and S.C.).

Chattooga River Region (N.C.-Ga. and S.C.)--Description and travel.

Chattooga River Region (N.C.-Ga. and S.C.)--Biography.

Dickey, James. Deliverance.

Dickey, James.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Before the novel and the film Deliverance appeared in the early 1970's, any outsiders one met along the Chattooga River were likely serious canoeists or anglers. In later years, untold numbers and kinds of people have felt the draw of the river's torrents, which pour down the Appalachians along the Georgia-South Carolina border. Because of Deliverance the Chattooga looms enigmatically in our shared imagination, as iconic as Twain's Mississippi--or maybe Conrad's Congo. This is John Lane's search for the real Chattooga--for the truths that reside somewhere in the river's rapids, along its shores

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; The Myth of the Chattooga; Headwaters; Chasing Deliverance; The Wilderness Upstream; Trail Mind; Easy Water; Pilley's Perfect River; The Narrows; Approaching the Bull; The Business of White Water; Bibliographic Note

Notes:

University of Georgia Press paperback edition, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-210).

ISBN:

0-8203-4622-5

OCLC:

852158615