River-horse
the logbook of a boat across America
River-horse
the logbook of a boat across America
Book - 1999
The author sets out from New York City to sail his boat across the United States.
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| Barcode | Status | Material Type | CallNumber |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37413326721042 | उपलब्ध | Non-fiction | 917.3049 HEAT |
| मुख्य लेखक: | |
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| स्वरूप: | पुस्तक |
| भाषा: | English |
| प्रकाशित: |
Boston :
Houghton Mifflin,
1999.
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| विषय: |
MARC
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| 100 | 1 | |a Heat Moon, William Least. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a River-horse : |b the logbook of a boat across America / |c William Least Heat-Moon. |
| 260 | |a Boston : |b Houghton Mifflin, |c 1999. | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 506 pages : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 500 | |a "A Peter Davison book." | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a I. The Hudson River : A celestial call to board ; Up rivers without sources ; There lurk the skid demon ; A drowned river ; Where Mohicans would not sleep ; Snowmelt and a nameless creek -- II. The Erie Canal : The pull of a continent ; Released from the necessity of mundane toil ; Like Jonah, we enter the leviathan ; Knoticals and hangman's rope ; We sleep with a bad-tempered woman tossed by fever -- III. The lakes : Hoisting the Blue Peter ; How the sun rose in the West to set me straight -- IV. The Allegheny River : An ammonia cocktail and a sharp onion-knife ; A flight of eagles, an iron bed, and so forth ; Unlimited sprawl area ; Zing, boom, tararel! -- V. The Ohio River : Proving the white man a liar ; The day begins with a goonieburger ; Enamel speaks ; Along the track of the glaciers ; From humdrummery on down toward tedium ; A history of the Ohio in three words ; A river coughed up from hell ; A necessity of topography and heart ; Nekked and without no posies ; Eyeless fish with eight tails ; The great omphalos in little Egypt -- VI. The Mississippi River : A night without light on a river without exits ; The ghost of the Mississippi ; Of swampsuckers and samaritans ; To the tune of "Garry Owen" we get ready -- VII. The Lower Missouri River : We start up the great Missouri ; I attach my life to the roots of the cottonwood ; A language with no word for flood ; Looking the river in the eye ; Clustered coincidences and peach pie ; Gone with the windings ; Pilotis's cosmic view gets bad news ; The dream lines of Thomas Jefferson ; A water snake across the bow ; Sacred hoops and a wheel of cheddar -- VIII. The Upper Missouri River : We find the fourth Missouri ; The phantom ship of the Missouri reeds ; How to steal Indian land ; A conscientious woman ; Flux, fixes, and flumdiddle ; Sitting Bull and the broom of heaven ; How to be a hell of a riverman ; Yondering up the broomsticks ; Chances of aught to naught ; We walk under the Great River ; Why Odysseus didn't discover America ; Pilotis concocts an Indian name for God ; Trickles, dribbles, and gurglets ; My life becomes a preposition ; Little gods and small catechisms ; Eating lightning ; Imprecating the wind ; Into the Quincunx ; Planning for anything less than everything ; Over the ebullition ; Ex aqua lux et vis ; Weaknesses in mountains and men ; A nightmare alley ; No huzzahs in the heart -- IX. The mountain streams : We meet mister eleven ; Eating the force that drives your life ; An ark from God or a miracle of Shoshones ; A shameless festal board -- X. The Salmon River : Bungholes and bodacious bounces -- XI. The Snake River : My Hermaphroditic quest ; Kissing a triding keepsake ; Messing about in boats -- XII. The Columbia River : The far side of the river cocytus ; Place of the dead ; Theater of the graveyard ; A badger called plan A ; Robot of the river ; A taproom fit for Raggedy Ann ; Salt to salt, tide to tide. | |
| 520 | |a The author sets out from New York City to sail his boat across the United States. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Heat Moon, William Least |x Travel |z United States. |
| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x Description and travel. | |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Heat Moon, William Least |x Travel |z United States. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Inland navigation |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Boats and boating |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Dories (Boats) |z United States. | |
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