My Reach : A Hudson River Memoir /

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In this memoir of the Hudson River and of her family, Susan Fox Rogers writes from a fresh perspective: the seat of her kayak. Low in the water, she explores the bays and the larger estuary, riding the tides, marveling over sturgeons and eels, eagles and herons, and spotting the remains of the ice a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rogers, Susan Fox (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rogers, Susan Fox.
Rogers, Susan Fox > Travel > Hudson River (N. Y. and N. J.)
Travel.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
United States > Hudson River.
New York (State)
New Jersey.
Hudson (N.Y. et N.J. : Fleuve) > Descriptions et voyages.
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) > Description and travel.
Electronic resource.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Note to the Reader
  • 1. What Lingers
  • 2. My Reach
  • 3. Swimming the Hudson
  • 4. Courage
  • 5. Home
  • 6. A Life in a Boat
  • 7. The Lost Dunes of Childhood
  • 8. The Speed of Wind and Water
  • 9. I'm Glad You Are Here
  • 10. The Long Loneliness
  • 11. Solace
  • 12. Learning the River
  • 13. If You Are Lucky
  • 14. Fishing
  • 15. Circling the City
  • 16. Nubian Goats
  • 17. Sturgeon Moon
  • 18. Sitting by the River
  • 19. Golden Club
  • 20. Grave Sites
  • 21. Summer Solstice
  • 22. Love for a River
  • Books Consulted
  • Acknowledgments.

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