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Canoeing
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It has always been my belief that you can judge the compatibility of two people by the rhythm of their paddle stroke.
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― THIS SIDE OF A WILDERNESS: A Novel
― THIS SIDE OF A WILDERNESS: A Novel
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From the Introduction to Coldhearted River: A Canoe Odyssey Down the Cumberland:
As I read about the Cumberland before the trip and began to scout it, its distinct personality began to emerge. It was colder, in a literal and figurative sense, than the Tennessee. Long stretches were empty, desolate, antisocial. It seemed haunted, distant, aloof, while the Tennessee was warm, embracing, pliant. The Tennessee was the friendly sister, close to my age, perhaps older, the Cumberland the younger one w
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― Coldhearted River: A Canoe Odyssey Down the Cumberland
― Coldhearted River: A Canoe Odyssey Down the Cumberland
