My Reach - A Hudson River Memoir

Informationen zum Autor Susan Fox Rogers is Visiting Associate Professor of Writing at Bard College. She is the editor of twelve books, including most recently Antarctica: Life on the Ice and Going Alone: Women's Adventures in the Wild. Klappentext In this memoir of the Hudson River and of her family, Susan Fox Rogers writes from a fresh perspective: the seat of her kayak. Years of dipping her paddle into the waters off the village of Tivoli made the river her own: her reach. Zusammenfassung In this memoir of the Hudson River and of her family, Susan Fox Rogers writes from a fresh perspective: the seat of her kayak. Years of dipping her paddle into the waters off the village of Tivoli made the river her own: her reach. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Susan Fox Rogers
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.2011
• EAN: 9780801450075
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-5007-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Die Erde: Naturgeschichte: Sachbuch, Kanufahren und Kajakfahren