River-Horse

The author of <b>Blue Highways</b> and <b>PrairyErth</b> takes us on a lifetime voyage full of imagery insight and appreciation. --<b>Cleveland Plain Dealer</b><p>In his most ambitious journey ever <b>William Least Heat-Moon</b> sets off aboard a small boat named Nikawa (river horse in Osage) from the Atlantic at New York Harbor in hopes of entering the Pacific near Astoria Oregon. He and his companion Pilotis struggle to cover some 5000 watery miles often following in the wakes of our most famous explorers from <b>Henry Hudson</b> to Lewis and Clark. <p>En route the voyagers confront massive floods dangerous weather and their own doubts about whether they can complete the trip. But the hard days yield incomparable pleasures: generous strangers landscapes untouched since Sacajawea saw them riverscapes flowing with a lively past and the growing belief that efforts to protect our lands and waters are beginning to pay off. <p>Teeming with humanity humor and high adventure <b>River-Horse</b> is an unsentimental and original arteriogram of our nation at the millennium.</p></p></p>