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In his most ambitious journey ever, William Least Heat-Moon 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 5,000 watery miles,... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Meriwether Lewis: Add a description of this character.
- William Clark
- Said Pilotis
- Billy
- Henry Hudson
- Lake Erie
- Jefferson
- Bannerman
- Karl Bodmer
- Mark Twain
- Assiniboin
- George Catlin
- Chanler
- Baker
- Mrs. Solaas
- Darriel
- Mary
- Pierce
- Prince Maximilian
- Braddock
- Pierre
Setting & Locations edit
- Upper Missouri River
- Ohio
- America
- Mississippi
- Pacific
- Columbia River
- Allegheny
- Montana
- Oregon
- Atlantic Ocean
- New York City
- St. Louis
- Washington
- Pittsburgh
- Indiana
- Kentucky
- Salmon
- Kansas City
- United States
- Idaho
- Buffalo
- South Dakota
- Illinois
- Pennsylvania
- Beaverhead
- Canada
- West Virginia
- Erie Canal
- Nikawa
- Cairo
- Iowa
- North Dakota
- Astoria
- Manhattan
- Highlands
- Nebraska
- Portland
- Heaven
- Snake River
- River Road
- Clarkston
- Missouri Valley
- New Haven
- Cincinnati
First Sentence edit
FOR ABOUT HALF A LEAGUE after we came out of the little harbor on Newark Bay at Elizabeth, New Jersey - with its strewn alleys and broken buildings, its pervading aura of collapse, where the mayor himself had met us at the dock and stood before a podium his staff fetched up for him to set his speech on, words to launch us on that Earth Day across the continent as he reminded us of history here, of George Washington on nearly the same date being rowed across to New York City on the last leg of his inaugural journey and for that half league down the Kill Van Kull (there Henry Hudson lost a sailor to an arrow through the neck), we had to lay in behind a rusting Norwegian freighter heading out to sea with so little cargo that her massive props were no more than half in the water and slapping up a thunderous wake and thrashing such a roil it sent our little teakettle of a boat pitching fore and aft.
Authors & Contributors edit
- William Least Heat-Moon (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0395636264
Page Count: 528
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0395636264
Page Count: 528
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 917.304929
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Special Groups › Native American Studies
- Books › Travel › Reference & Tips › Essays & Travelogues
- Books › Travel › United States › Regions
- Books › Reference › Writing › Travel
- Books › Science › Earth Sciences › Rivers
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