Canoeing the Great Plains : a Missouri River summer /

"Tired of an unfulfilling life in Kansas City, Missouri, Patrick Dobson left his job and set off on foot across the Great Plains. After two and a half months, 1,450 miles, and numerous encounters with the people of the heartland, Dobson arrived in Helena, Montana. He then set a canoe on the Mis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dobson, Patrick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2015.
Temas:
Dobson, Patrick > Travel > Missouri River.
Dobson, Patrick > Travel > Great Plains.
Canoes and canoeing > Missouri River.
River life > Missouri River.
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Vie fluviale > Missouri (Rivière)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
TRAVEL > United States > West > Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, UT, WY)
TRAVEL > United States > Midwest > West North Central (IA, KS, MN, MO, ND, NE, SD)
SPORTS & RECREATION > Water Sports.
Canoes and canoeing.
River life.
Travel.
Missouri River > Description and travel.
Great Plains > Description and travel.
Missouri (Rivière) > Descriptions et voyages.
Grandes Plaines > Descriptions et voyages.
Great Plains.
Missouri River.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • Doomed
  • Drunkenness, Fear, and Determination
  • Your Friend, the River
  • Life Preserver
  • Carless
  • Medicine River
  • A Speck in the Landscape
  • Spirits of the Dead
  • Cheap Cigars
  • Oaths and Vulgarities
  • Staying in Motion
  • Owl Headdress
  • Doris
  • A Startling Leap
  • Rather Be Fishing
  • The Toughest Part
  • Home but not Home
  • Epilogue.

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