Riverman
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Krátky popis
'Brilliant, clear, and humane' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat,
Pray, Love 'Miraculous and hopeful' Emma Straub, author of All
Adults Here 'Quietly profound ... belongs on the shelf next to Jon
Krakauer's Into the Wild' New York Times Riverman: An American
Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary man and his puzzling
disappearance, and paints a picture of the singular spirit of
America's riverbank towns. 'The peace of mind I found, largely
alone, on that white-water mecca convinced me that life was capable
of exquisite pleasure and undefined meaning deep in the face of
failure.The experience itself is the reward.' Dick Conant On his
forty-third birthday, Dick Conant, a golden boy who never quite
grew up as those around him expected, stepped into a homemade boat
to embark on a journey despite a gathering snowstorm. Among his
possessions was a Gideon Bible and biographies of Einstein and
Bismark. It was the beginning of an all-consuming odyssey by an
unconventional man into the watery arteries of America, a journey
to the unreported margins of society.He was to spend the next
twenty years canoeing thousands of miles of rivers and their
innumerable smaller tributaries, from one end of the country to the
other. 'I can, and I will!' he said. And then, in 2014, he
disappeared.Not long before Conant's upturned canoe was found in a
brackish North Carolina bay, Ben McGrath met Conant by chance as he
paddled down the Hudson, headed for Florida. McGrath set out to
find the people whose lives, like his own, had been touched by
their encounter with the great river wanderer. Along the way he
meets eccentrics and ne'er-do-wells drawn straight from the pages
of Mark Twain, a vast network of friends and acquaintances who
would forever remember this brilliant and charming man even after a
single meeting.Riverman is the story of a restless soul who was as
troubled as he was charismatic, a contemporary folk hero who slips
the moorings of ordinary civilised life to tap into what Thoreau
called 'a yearning toward all wildness.' It is also a riveting
portrait of an America we rarely see: a nation of unconventional
characters, small river towns, and long forgotten waterways.
Výber kníh autorov
Fourth Estate ,
Ben McGrath
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Fourth Estate,
Ben McGrath
Výber kníh vydavateľa
Slovart
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Slovart
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