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River-Horse (The Travel Trilogy #3)

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On the Road Again
There's no shortage of 20th-century literature about traveling across America in a car. Even William Least Heat-Moon, author of River Horse, wrote a nonfiction work about his search in a beat-up Ford for himself and America (Blue Highways).

But not since the 19th-century adventures of Mark Twain, as told in Life on the Mississippi, have readers had the cha...more

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Published April 1st 2001 by Penguin Books (first published 1999)

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Apr 25, 2007 Nathan Pearson rated it 3 of 5 stars

Haven't navigated all the way through yet. So far, Least Heat Moon's 'deep map' approach to digging headlong into the (recent) history of particular corners of north America is enlightening and surprisingly fast-paced (even if it's not the methodological novelty it's cracked up to be). His choice to refer to his touring companion as 'Pilotis', ostensibly so as to honor his friend's humble wish for anonymity, becomes grating about two pages in; and there's a lot of smug 'Year in Provence'-style c...more

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Oct 14, 2012 Hank Stone rated it 5 of 5 stars

I picked this from the library after reading a positive review in the paper. Was drawn in immediately, by the author's skillful and intriguing blend of history, geography, characterization, and personality. It made me want to take the same trip, experiencing the American continent, not as we do so often these days, on interstates or looking down from 35,000 feet, but the way our ancestors did: from the waterways.
A year or so later, our local library was selling seldom-used books to make more sp...more

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May 08, 2012 Carl Brush rated it 5 of 5 stars

William Least Heat-Moon. Our author slips in his anglo name at one point in this narrative, but only in the most sly way, as if it were a secret he uttered by mistake. He also reveals the meaning of Heat-Moon--an Indian (Osage) name for a midsummer moon. Least? I still don’t know. River Horse is that kind of book. Full of signs and portents and knowledge and suspense, always slipping around in currents or running aground in the shallows or stalled at the locks. The goals are definite, but dista...more William Least Heat-Moon. Our author slips in his anglo name at one point in this narrative, but only in the most sly way, as if it were a secret he uttered by mistake. He also reveals the meaning of Heat-Moon--an Indian (Osage) name for a midsummer moon. Least? I still don’t know. River Horse is that kind of book. Full of signs and portents and knowledge and suspense, always slipping around in currents or running aground in the shallows or stalled at the locks. The goals are definite, but distant, and fulfillment unsure even if the goal is reached. The road is shadowy, liquid, its source unknown and direction unpredictable. Underneath the few visible surface inches is another world altogether, sometimes benign, sometimes dynamic, sometimes friendly, sometimes hostile. Always unknown.
River Horse is on one level the non-fiction tale of a man and his boat, intent on journeying across North America by water in one season--the space between May and August when navigability is maximum. For reasons he explains and re-explains and never quite fully justifies, he wants to move east to west, to more or less duplicate a major portion of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804. It means that the upstream portion of the trip will be about twice as long as if he traveled in the opposite direction, but it HAS to be east to west anyhow.
He gathers a crew, finds a boat that he thinks will fill the bill (flat bottom for the shallows, big enough to take two motors to fight the current, narrow enough to fit between close banks and rocks), fits out a motorized canoe to fit where the Nikawa won’t go so he can absolutely maximize water miles and minimize portages, gathers a crew, and takes off from New Jersey.
Despite extensive preparation--research, advance contact with lock and dam operators, spotting fueling stations, etc.--the trip is fraught with complications and difficulties. As we travel, Heat-Moon, fills us in with scholarly and entertaining (hard combination to achieve)--often poetic-- accounts and descriptions of the history, geography, geology, zoology, and sociology of the lands and cities and towns we pass through. He also delivers a healthy political/environmental commentary on the governmental neglect and commercial exploitation of our resources. Both the journey and the commentary are fascinating and suspenseful. It’s not the kind of suspense where you wonder whether they’re going to make it. It’s the kind of suspense where you wonder how, as in how are they going to extricate themselves from this one?
As if that weren’t enough, there are sub-currents of a non-riverine kind in the relationships among the crew and the inner life of the narrator. People are taking the journey for their own reasons, which don’t always match his, and the levels of commitment vary. So folks come aboard, then debark in mid-journey, leaving ghosts of guilt, regret, resentment. So, too, the marriage that Heat-Moon is leaving behind. We don’t glimpse too much of it, just enough to know that every mile of the odyssey is intertwined with thoughts of what worked, what didn’t, and why. All of this leaves a shadowed frame around a mostly bright and colorful painting. It sounds a bit novelistic for a piece of travel writing, but that's how substantive this journal is, how much dimension it has.
And I should mention the vocabulary enhancements he provided yours truly. Words such “atrabilious,” “esurient,” “jactitation,” and “cliquant.” Delicious.
I don’t know a better journey book in contemporary American literature. I call it a classic, and an inspiring one at that. A good start to 2009.(less)

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Aug 12, 2007 Jon Stout rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: local color enthusiasts, lovers of Americana

Inspired by reading Blue Highways, I came to love the point of view of this native American author. He figures out a way to travel by water across the continental United States. His encounters with people along the canals, lakes and rivers recall the America of a century ago, when automobile and air travel did not prevail. He also teaches by example a warm and respectful attitude toward native Americans and towards all kinds of people.

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Oct 10, 2012 Steven White rated it 4 of 5 stars

Heat-Moon is a wonderful writer who took me from the Atlantic to Pacific. His and his unique colleagues describe a journey like no other. I became familiar with river boat jargon that I hope never to hear first hand because I have no desire to be in a boat the size of Nikawa when on Lake Erie or the upper reaches of the Missouri River. In the first case it was too small and in the latter it must have been too big. Heat-Moon was ready for for all eventualities so it's in the canoe for Pilotis and...more

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Feb 08, 2012 mark rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Adventurers, writers of travel logs

Shelves: nonfiction

There is no hiding in writing. You can run the River Of No Return in central Idaho, you can float the Xingu in central Brazil, raft the Grand Canyon of the wild Colorado, drive the Pacific Coast Highway, travel to faraway lands and cultures, or ride the rails and watch for fires in desolate, lookout towers in the middle of nowhere – you can ride and ride and ride, and run and run and run, but if you choose to write about your journey, you cannot hide who you are. William Least Heat-Moon, author...more There is no hiding in writing. You can run the River Of No Return in central Idaho, you can float the Xingu in central Brazil, raft the Grand Canyon of the wild Colorado, drive the Pacific Coast Highway, travel to faraway lands and cultures, or ride the rails and watch for fires in desolate, lookout towers in the middle of nowhere – you can ride and ride and ride, and run and run and run, but if you choose to write about your journey, you cannot hide who you are. William Least Heat-Moon, author of River Horse: A Voyage Across America is a curmudgeon—a second-order curmudgeon. (See below.) And on top of that, his writing suffers from way, way, way too many metaphors, similes, and analogies. Heat-Moon is in love with himself, his writing style, and his worldview; and is bitter and angry that others don’t fully appreciate his talents. That’s what I get from reading this book. That said, there are some things I like about this story. It is informative and authoritative. I did get a sense of the land and I liked the historical references to the Lewis and Clark expedition and also the local folklores and color.

This is travel writing, a book about Heat-Moon’s 100+ day journey of 5,288 miles across America in 1995, mostly by major waterways, in a 22 foot motorboat, named Nikawa, which in the Osage language means, river horse. And, as one of the author’s travel companion’s notes spelled backward is “Awakin.” Wishful thinking, methinks. If by awakening one means insight into self. Not much of that going on here. The writing style is NPRish. Contrived. Overdone. Too clever. Metaphors and whatnots are for the purpose of expanding understanding — Making sense of the unknown by the knower of, to the unknower of—the unknown. Not to show off but to simplify. For example: The Snake River. Or, The River Of No Return. Which then Heat-Moon dresses up as in his chapter heading: “Bungholes and Bodacious Bounces.” But then, and this is part of what I like about the book, Heat-Moon gives a good declarative, simple opening paragraph that describes the physical characteristics of the canyon, followed by excerpts from L & C Expedition’s Journal and tops that with this local lore descriptor: ‘“Creation chopped it [the Canyon] out with a hatchet.’” (circa 1900) One can imagine a huge god-like man, say Paul Bunyan, standing over the rocky mountains with an axe and chopping away, and then what that would look like – the canyon that the Salmon River carved out in central Idaho. But then one of his (=Heat-Moon’s) pal’s (like attracts like) chimes in with this, ‘“This isn’t a river – it’s a wet elevator.’” (pg. 430 – both) Huh? This kind of muddling metaphor is a constant. Here’s another one: “Things unacknowledged were about to claw into the light like moles desperate in a flooding field.” (pg. 489) Which is a re-statement of what he mused 16 pages earlier, “… – my life off the river caught up that morning …I’d given that other existence time to find me and bring with it much I’d recently failed to do well or even adequately – marriage preeminently – so that when I fully woke, even before I thought I heard the wind, I wanted nothing to do with anything, and lay wishing I could evaporate like a creek when feeder streams dwindle in summer heat until one day the water is gone, leaving behind only an imprint in its bed.” Sh__t. Heat-Moon was 56 when he took this trip, and I know some readers do like this kind of self-wallowing, but it’s not uplifting nor inspiring … makes me glad I haven’t encountered Heat-Moon on any of my travels! It’s NPRish, yes? His worldview is tree-hugging liberal (Nothing wrong with that. I lean that way myself.); and he seems to look down his nose at most of the people he encounters along his journey. This is where the “second-order curmudgeon” comes from. I’ve taken that from David Wallace’s account in his novel The Broom of the System, where Wallace speaks (via a character) about “a second-order vain person.” Which is – pretending not to be vain when you are – which can also be applied to Heat-Moon. So curmudgeon: bad tempered, disapproving, disagreeing person, which is how I find Heat-Moon. And yes, I have some of that in me. Most writers do. But he pretends he’s not, folksin’ up to the folks he encounters on his journey, and then secretly belittling them when he has no further use for them. Anyway, that’s my impression.

I like this kind of book – a travel-log, but not this one. I much preferred Road Angels: Searching for Home on America’s Coast of Dreams (2001) by Kent Nerburn.
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Sep 14, 2007 Mike rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Outdoorsy folk, conservationists, anyone who's never been on a river

Though a little hauty at times, it's amazing to read about the cultures that converge along the waterways. The author is definitely anti-civil works. As much damage as a dam can do to an ecosystem, there are benefits that are ignored by Least Heat Moon. One-sided environmentalism gets old, but a traveling story is timeless... definitely worth reading.

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Jul 29, 2007 Lynn rated it 4 of 5 stars

William Least Heat Moon gets this idea that he might find the Northwest Passage,plans the whole trip out, and then sets out to do it with a special boat, a good friend, and a group of people watching out for them and helping out when needed. His story is entrancing, part geography, part history, part autobiographical, part lyrical.

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May 12, 2007 Susannah rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: alltimeclassics

when my wanderlust threatens to overcome me, all i have to do is take out my copy of this book and read a few chapters. william least-heat moon is one of my favourite authors, and his acount of travelling across america by boat is extraordinary. the people he encounters, the adventures he goes on, they all satisfy my hobo nature.

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Jan 14, 2012 Pat Monahan rated it 5 of 5 stars

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First William Least Heat-Moon wrote about his circular journey from coast to coast and back on 'Blue Highways', then he wrote about his journey by water from coast to coast.

I was hooked from the time he motored under the Brooklyn Bridge up the Hudson to the Erie Canal. I read every word as he crossed Lake Erie, went down the Allegheny to the Ohio.

Enjoyed the journey on the Ohio and Missouri til the later ended in Montana. Loved how the story followed the steps of Lewis and Clark over the contine...more

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Jul 02, 2012 Thom rated it 4 of 5 stars

It was fun to read this book. I kept getting out the road atlas and the dictionary. I like his perspective on the world--his critical comments, his observations of the natural world, his love of literature and connection to earlier travelers on the rivers. His preparation for this journey must have included a lot of reading about the history of the places he passed through, for he shares interesting tidbits in every chapter. For all the isolation or insulation of being part of a small crew on a...more

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Dec 27, 2011 Sue rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: nonfiction-travel

RIVER HORSE A VOYAGE ACROSS AMERICA is a wonderful travel story, by boat from the Atlantic at New York Harbor to the Pacific at Astoria Oregon. The narrative covers about 5000 miles of river way and encounters with bad weather, interesting people, history, geology, and of course, adventure that many of us can only read about. I would have liked to have had better maps of the journey included in the book as I finally pulled out an atlas and tried to follow the book's movement through it. I would...more

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Jan 01, 2012 Frederick Bingham rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a book about a journey the author took across the US. He went from the Atlantic to the Pacific nearly all by boat. He took the Hudson River, Erie Canal, Ohio River and tributaries, Mississippi, Missouri, Salmon and Columbia Rivers among others. Along the way he mixes in history (for example quoting extensively and often from the diaries of Lewis and Clark), politics, geology, personal reflection, nature and adventure travel. The part about the upper Missouri is especially engaging and in...more

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Jan 26, 2010 Mike rated it 4 of 5 stars

Another great traveling through America book by William Least Heat-Moon. The writing really took off when he got to the Mississippi River and then traveled up the Missouri River, but maybe I'm biased in favor of those rivers over the first rivers he traveled: the Hudson, the Ohio, etc. It is amazing that he managed to pull off the voyage, particularly in light of the several hair-raising moments that occurred. I think "Blue Highways" was a better book, perhaps because he seems more comfortable w...more

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Jun 02, 2013 Wally rated it 5 of 5 stars

Aa friend loaned me this book last summer and somehow I never got it read. Fortunately she reminded me that I still had it, so . . .I finally read it and am I ever happy I did. It is simply beautifully written. And, it is the true accounting of the author's 'trek' via boat name Nikawa which means River-Horse from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Heat-Moon writes prose like the smooth parts of the rivers he covered -- it flows. The descriptions of the scenery, water, people, etc. is memorable and the...more

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May 14, 2007 Josh rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: People interested in the US

Shelves: booksread

A magical story about a journey through America's waterways that represents an analogy about life. Great spiritual pick-me-up.

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Nov 22, 2008 Robin rated it 2 of 5 stars

I have read Heat-Moon's books before - well, maybe just Blue Highways, but I loved it and was excited about this one. Besides that I'm "in geography" and thought it would be helpful. River-Horse (what's up with the hyphen?) is loooooonnnnngggggg. The first couple of thousand miles were interesting, but I had to force myself to finish it. I got tired of his ranting about the governmental tweaking of the river systems. Usually when I come upon a word I don't know, I look it up, but in this one, I...more

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Jan 28, 2013 Brian Farkas rated it 5 of 5 stars

The premise behind the book, that the author is attempting to cross the United States by boat over the course of one season without lengthy portages provides the impetus for the voyage described herein. Heat-Moon's self-imposed strictures make for what seems to be manufactured drama, but the book is excellent in spite of it. The historical anecdotes and local color provided much of the book's allure for me, though the travelogue aspect of the book is not neglected.
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Nov 19, 2011 Michael Mckinney rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: lost

Passage to Juneau had many of the same sentiments as this book. William Least Heat-Moon captures a quick summation from one of the strangers he encounters, "When a man takes to the road, he is running away from something. When a woman takes to the road, she is looking for something." While he tracks a course through the Midwest, having started from the East Coast of America, carrying a liter of the Atlantic ocean in a mason jar, William Least Heat Moon seems intent on holding himself to some ide...more

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Jul 02, 2009 William rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2009

Even if Heat-Moon's retelling of his cross-country voyage via rivers does tend to be a bit longer than necessary, his tale is never really dull. Besides, he is a narrator one can grow to like not only for his honesty about his own faults but also for his keen personal observations. My edition could have really benefited, however, by including better maps in place of the almost useless ones that were used. Details of the voyage were too important not to give the readers a better idea about where...more

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Dec 06, 2011 Stephen rated it 3 of 5 stars

It took just over four years to read William Least-Heat Moon's "Blue Highways." This account of his trip around the United States in a live-aboard van named Ghost Dancer using only local roads is highly episodic and lends itself to bathroom reading. It took just over two years to read his "River-Horse," which I never would have attempted, had I not found his first book so engaging. He is a good storyteller and genuinely enjoys meeting and describing interesting people. His interests in geography...more

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Nov 04, 2012 Linda rated it 5 of 5 stars

I like books about traveling on water, having been a sailboat-racer, canoeist, kayaker and still doing occasional whitewater rafting. I love boats and books about people who adventure in them. This book did not disappoint. William Least-Heat Moon takes you from east to west across the United States on a variety of boats. You and he start out in a boat called "Nikawa" or River Horse (in Osage) and you float from New York Bay, up the Hudson River and then westward on rivers, lakes, canals and stre...more

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Oct 31, 2011 Jen rated it 3 of 5 stars

The writing is very calm and lyrical, though I could do without all of the jabs at the white man (people) and how they desecrate everything that they touch and all of the obscure literary quotes that the author and his "Pilotis" exchange back-and-forth. It's rather look-at-me-I'm-well-read-and-smarter-than-you. Also, it's a little more work than I would like to try to figure out when the author is speaking to others in the book and when he's just thinking, as he never uses quotation marks for hi...more

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Aug 18, 2010 Brian rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Oh man! I've been working on this book for a while. Once I'm finished with it I'm sure I'll give it four stars. I mean, I do like it. But like Blue Highways, Heat-Moon doesn't miss a detail or a bit of trivia and he doesn't miss an opportunity to share those things with you. The journey here is a SLOW one, it seems, because he offers so much so often. Bogs you down such that sometimes you just want to put your fingers in your ears and say, "Just open up the throttles and shut up for a minute, wi...more

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Aug 02, 2008 Josh Braun rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: nonfiction, literary-journalism

William [Trogdon] Least Heat-Moon's first book, Blue Highways, is one of my favorites of all time. And while River-Horse is by all rights a great achievement in travel writing, it is inevitably a bit of a let-down in comparison with Highways.

Part of what made Highways so soulful and charming was that it was written in such a deeply personal manner. Heat-Moon leaves on his original trip after a failed marriage, simultaneously seeking a break with his past and a chance to rediscover himself. He...more William [Trogdon] Least Heat-Moon's first book, Blue Highways, is one of my favorites of all time. And while River-Horse is by all rights a great achievement in travel writing, it is inevitably a bit of a let-down in comparison with Highways.

Part of what made Highways so soulful and charming was that it was written in such a deeply personal manner. Heat-Moon leaves on his original trip after a failed marriage, simultaneously seeking a break with his past and a chance to rediscover himself. He travels in Blue Highways with next to nothing - a homeless man roving the country on a few hundred dollars and sleeping in a van. It's an amazing and spiritually enlightening trip taken in a disarmingly humble manner, and readers respond because they can put themselves in those shoes. It's easier to imagine ourselves sleeping in a van outside Missouri than traveling through Baghdad Without a Map like Tony Horwitz, or taking Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari.

River-Horse, while an excellent book, is a drastically different experience. Humble no more, Heat-Moon's journey from coast to coast on America's rivers is lavishly financed. He scours the country to acquire a lease on just the proper boat, and ends up taking not one, but several. He uses his celebrity, or at least his journalistic credentials, to negotiate a private opening of the Eerie Canal early in the season. And he's followed throughout by a small, but loyal support team, who haul his assorted boats overland, meeting him at various junctures to help him portage or exchange watercraft. The journey is fascinating, but few people can put themselves in his shoes anymore.

It's also worth mentioning that long hours on the water, and the comparatively short length of Heat-Moon's trip (Highways took roughly a full year of traveling), all mean fewer interactions with local denizens of the countryside. The author attempts to balance this absence by supplementing his narrative with remembrances of previous travels - talking about the various things that happened when he last visited a place he's now seeing less of. Far more of the interactions and identifications that occur in the book are with Heat-Moon's entourage of photographer- and writer-friends. Many are humorous or entertaining, but there's an exclusive feel to them that wasn't there in Blue Highways - they occur amongst a club the reader is not part of.

The author tries to alleviate this a bit by disguising the number of people he traveled with. He refers to the plethora of friends who accompanied him at various times on his journey by a single name, 'Pilotis.' Only in the preface material do we find out that this was not one person, but seven. The literary device adds some narrative continuity to the book, and is intended to let the reader get to know the author's friends as the story of a single person, thereby creating a more sympathetic character. It works sometimes, but occasionally it also backfires, as continuing the ruse ultimately makes 'Pilotis' something of a two-dimensional character, thus lessening our sense of identification.

I criticize here, but I'll close by saying that nothing in the book challenges Heat-Moon's status as one of my favorite authors. Even if it's not my favorite of his works, I view River-Horse as a superior achievement. It's most definitely worth reading, and it paints a vivid picture of America's waterways, past and present, along with the vital role they play in our culture and our environment.(less)

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May 21, 2013 Anthony Watkins rated it 3 of 5 stars

If i had not read Blue Highways, i would probably have given him 4 stars. good story, a great look at america. my biggest problem with riverhorse, and i agree with the sermons, but i get tired of the preaching, and i think it closes the book off a bit for more conservative readers. in blue highways, i felt like moon was in awe of his travels and the people he met, in this book, i think he wasa little in awe of moon, but still very much worth the read.

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Feb 15, 2013 Peter rated it 3 of 5 stars

Like the cross-country boat trip this book describes, getting through this book is a test of endurance. I greatly enjoyed Heat-Moon's narrative as he journeyed through towns on the Hudson, the Erie Canal and the Ohio, but things bog down quite a bit as he travels the Missouri, whose valley is so wide that few towns are adjacent and the only structures to describe are the inhumanly-scaled dams foolishly plunked down by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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Nov 30, 2009 Cindy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: memoir, non-fiction, audio, library

I really like the writing of Least Heat-Moon. He relays his adventures and trials along the road, or in this case, the river, in such an engaging fashion! He also does a great job of introducing the reader to all the wonderful characters one finds across the breadth of America.

I listened to the cd audio version, but I couldn't find it in the database with a picture I liked . . .

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Mar 06, 2013 Thom rated it 5 of 5 stars

Heat-Moon demonstrates his remarkable storytelling skills, an encyclopedic knowledge of American history, and a masterful command of the English language to weave the lyrical tapestry that's "River-Horse." While you might want to keep a dictionary handy for this read, Heat-Moon is by no means overly pedantic in his narrative. He simply chooses the right word to precisely articulate a particular thought -- even if that word is one you'd be hard-pressed to find in even the most sophisticated perio...more

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Sep 17, 2012 Jean rated it 5 of 5 stars

I read this book when we had rented a cabin in the Adirondacks. We had rented kayaks for the week and went through through the upper locks on Saranac Lake. I felt like I was living the book, well sort of...

I would love to travel and meet people the same way that William Least Heat Moon did. As I cannot hear I can live it through his words.

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