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Journey on the James: Three Weeks Through the Heart of Virginia by Swift: New
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Journey on the James: Three Weeks Through the Heart of Virginia
- Publication Date
- 2002-04-29
- Pages
- 239
- ISBN
- 9780813921198
- Subject Area
- Nature, Travel, Sports & Recreation, History
- Publication Name
- Journey on the James : Three Weeks Through the Heart of Virginia
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Subject
- United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, De, Fl, Ga, Md, Nc, SC, VA, WV), Canoeing, Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV)
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Features
- Reprint
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Item Weight
- 13.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 239 Pages
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From its beginnings as a trickle of icy water in Virginia's northwest corner to its miles-wide mouth at Hampton Roads, the James River has witnessed more recorded history than any other feature of the American landscape -- as home to the continent's first successful English settlement, highway for Native Americans and early colonists, battleground in the Revolution and the Civil War, and birthplace of America's twentieth-century navy. In 1998, restless in his job as a reporter for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Earl Swift landed an assignment traveling the entire length of the James. He hadn't been in a canoe since his days as a Boy Scout, and he knew that the river boasts whitewater, not to mention man-made obstacles, to challenge even experienced paddlers. But reinforced by Pilot photographer Ian Martin and a lot of freeze-dried food and beer, Swift set out to immerse himself -- he hoped not literally -- in the river and its history. What Swift survived to bring us is this engrossing chronicle of three weeks in a fourteen-foot plastic canoe and four hundred years in the life of Virginia. Fueled by humor and a dauntless curiosity about the land, buildings, and people on the banks, and anchored by his sidekick Martin -- whose photographs accompany the text -- Swift points his bow through the ghosts of a frontier past, past Confederate forts and POW camps, antebellum mills, ruined canals, vanished towns, and effluent-spewing industry. Along the banks, lonely meadowlands alternate with suburbs and power plants, marinas and the gleaming skyscrapers of Richmond's New South downtown. Enduring dunkings, wolf spiders, near-arrest, channel fever, and twenty-knot winds, Swift makes it to the Chesapeake Bay. Readers who accompany him through his Journey on the James will come away with the accumulated pleasure, if not the bruises and mud, of four hundred miles of adventure and history in the life of one of America's great watersheds.
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Publisher
University of Virginia Press
ISBN-10
0813921198
ISBN-13
9780813921198
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2275198
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Journey on the James : Three Weeks Through the Heart of Virginia
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Subject
United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, De, Fl, Ga, Md, Nc, SC, VA, WV), Canoeing, Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV)
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Nature, Travel, Sports & Recreation, History
Number of Pages
239 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
13.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Edition Description
Reprint
Reviews
Earl Swift has taken what could have been a disaster-prone journey down Virginia's most famous river and turned it into a delightful piece of writing. While we're chuckling about his less-than-expert attempts to float an inner tube in too-shallow water or maneuver a canoe through rapids that tax his ability, all along he steps off the water to relate the remarkable story of the James.|9780813921198|, With humor and insight, Swift narrates his story on a day-by-day basis, telling not only the hazards and the beauty of the river itself, but also of the people he and Martin met along the way. His historical notes, reflecting a great deal of research, add depth to the chronicle. This is no if-it's-Tuesday-it-must-be-Balcony-Falls travelogue, but a lively and colorful recap of a journey savored hour-by-hour.|9780813921198|, By turns travel narrative, history book and comic adventure, Journey on the James breathes life into the affairs of one of our most beautiful and significant rivers.|9780813921198|
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
975.5/4
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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