Life on the Bolotomy

Peter Leroy recalls a childhood journey of discovery that he made from the mouth of the Bolotomy River to its source traveling with his best (and imaginary) friend Rodney Raskol Lodkochnikov. The journey begins with the work of turning a packing case (which Cap'n Andrew Leech intends to use later as a coffin) into a shallow-draft boat it involves encounters with a philosophical vagrant and a gaggle of beautiful nymphs and it ends with the metaphor of life as a river turned on its head.