On the Water: Discovering America in a Row Boat [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Stone, Nathaniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0767908414 ISBN 13: 9780767908412

Verlag: Broadway Books, 2002

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Retraces his extraordinary six-thousand-mile journey around the "eastern island" of the United States in a seventeen-foot rowboat, describing his voyage up the Hudson River to the Erie Canal, down the Allegheny to the Ohio and Mississippi, around Key West, and up the Atlantic coastline to Eastport, Maine.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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;I take a stroke and lean back, gazing up into the jet skies, bejeweled by the moon and the galaxies of stars. The hull glides in silence and with such perfect balance as to report no motion. I sit up for another stroke, now looking down as the blades ignite swirling pairs of white constellations of phosphorescent plankton. Two opposing heavens. ‘Remember this,’ I think to myself.”

Few people have ever considered the eastern United States to be an island, but when Nat Stone began tracing waterways in his new atlas at the age of ten he discovered that if one had a boat it was possible to use a combination of waterways to travel up the Hudson River, west across the barge canals and the Great Lakes, down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, and back up the eastern seaboard. Years later, still fascinated by the idea of the island, Stone read a biography of Howard Blackburn, a nineteenth-century Gloucester fisherman who had attempted to sail the same route a

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• Verlag: Broadway Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0767908414
• ISBN 13: 9780767908412
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336