River a Hudson memoir Leslie Day ; foreword by Ed Bacon

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Day, Leslie, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Day, Leslie, 1945---Knowledge and learning.

Day, Leslie.

Natural history--Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.).

Natural history.

River life--Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.).

River life.

Boat living--New York (State)--New York.

Boat living.

Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)--History.

Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Ithaca London Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press 2025

Summary:

"Leslie Day's life changed forever when, in 1975, she moved to a tiny houseboat on the Hudson River at the 79th Street Boat Basin—a new home umbilically tied to Manhattan's Upper West Side. In her heartfelt memoir, River, Day reveals how she fell in love with, and married, her neighbor, a biology professor at Brooklyn College, became a naturalist, educator, and author, and raised her son on the boat. As Day invites readers into the intimate and connective stories of the singular floating community on the river, the histories and the people of the Hudson flow along with the tides and currents of Day's life. There are stories of those who polluted the river, and of those who fought for it to be clean and safe. Of how Day became a student and teacher of the river, and the plants and animals she grew to know and love. Challenges and celebrations have their own place, too: storms, sinkings, fires, and ice fields; weddings, birthdays, holidays, and found families. A unique look at life on and of the Hudson, River is a love letter to New York City, its famous waterway, as well as the environment around us and the people who shape it"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

What the water holds

Homecoming : the 79th Street Boat Basin

Student, teacher : river lessons

River life : inhabitants of the Hudson

Weathering : storms and other threats to the 79th Street Boat Basin

Goodbyes

Epilogue : river resources

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed October 22, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version Day, Leslie, 1945- River

ISBN:

9781501783876

1501783874

9781501783869

1501783866

OCLC:

1545067958

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license