Crossing the Driftless : A Canoe Trip through a Midwestern Landscape / Lynne Diebel ; illustrated by Robert Diebel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diebel, Lynne Smith, author.

Contributor:

Diebel, Robert, illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rivers--Driftless Area.

Rivers.

Canoes and canoeing--Driftless Area.

Canoes and canoeing.

Driftless Area.

Diebel, Lynne Smith--Travel--Driftless Area.

Diebel, Lynne Smith.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin ; London, England : Terrace Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Driftless Area is the land the glaciers missed, an ancient landscape of bluffs, ridgetops, and steep valleys that long ago was a seabed. Covering much of southwestern Wisconsin, its contours were deeply carved from bedrock, not by ice but by many rivers. Crossing the Driftless is both a traveler's tale and an exploration of this dramatic environment, following the streams of geologic and human history. Lynne Diebel and her husband, Bob, crossed the Driftless Area by canoe, journeying 359 river miles (and six Mississippi River locks and five portages) from Faribault, Minnesota, where her family has a summer home on Cedar Lake, to their Wisconsin home in Stoughton, one block from the Yahara River. Traveling by river and portage, they paddled downstream on the Cannon and Mississippi rivers and upstream on the Wisconsin River, in the tradition of voyageurs. Lynne tells the story of their trip, but also the stories of the rivers they canoed and the many tributaries whose confluences they passed.Finalist, Travel, Foreword Reviews IndieFabBook of the Year AwardsHonorable mention, Nonfiction book, Council for Wisconsin WritersWinner, Recreation/Sports/Travel, Midwest Book AwardsBest books for public & secondary school libraries from university presses, American Library Association

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Down the Cannon; On the Upper Mississippi; Windbound on Pepin; Locking Through; Of Barges and Steamboats; In Their Own Pool; Take a Left at Wyalusing; Up the Lower Wisconsin; Fourth of July; Out of the Fog; Defeated by the Bottoms; River Home Yahara; References; Index of River Names

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780299302931

0299302938

OCLC:

903206771