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Riverman : an American odyssey / Ben McGrath.
Van Pelt Library GV782.42.C67 M34 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGrath, Ben, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conant, Dick.
- Canoes and canoeing--United States.
- Canoes and canoeing.
- Adventure and adventurers--United States--Biography.
- Adventure and adventurers.
- Canoeing accidents--United States.
- Canoeing accidents.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
- Summary:
- "The riveting story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years, solo canoed thousands of miles of American rivers--and then in 2016 disappeared off the coast of North Carolina"-- Provided by publisher.
- Over the course of more than twenty years, Dick Conant solo canoed thousands of miles of American rivers. In 2016 Conant disappeared off the coast of North Carolina; his canoe washed up a few months later, without any sign of his body. McGrath set out to find the people whose lives Conant had touched-- and has created a portrait of a complex man who was as troubled as he was charasmatic. His book is also a portrait of an America we rarely see: a nation of unconventional characters, small river towns, and long-forgotten waterways. -- adapted from jacket
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780451494009
- 0451494008
- 9781101973615
- 1101973617
- OCLC:
- 1259295698
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