My Paddle to the Sea Eleven Days on the River of the Carolinas

Name: My Paddle to the Sea Eleven Days on the River of the Carolinas
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ISBN: 9780820344201

ISBN-10: 0820344206

ISBN-13: 9780820344201

Edition: 2011

Authors: John Lane

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Three months after a family vacation in Costa Rica ends in tragedy when two fellow rafters die on the flooded Rio Reventazón, John Lane sets out with friends from his own backyard in upcountry South Carolina to calm his nerves and to paddle to the sea.Like Huck Finn, Lane sees a river journey as a portal to change, but unlike Twain’s character, Lane isn’t escaping. He’s getting intimate with the river that flows right past his home in the Spartanburg suburbs. Lane’s threehundred-mile float trip takes him down the Broad River and into Lake Marion before continuing down the Santee River. Along the way Lane recounts local history and spars with streamside literary presences such asMind of the…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 9/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

John Lane is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, including My Paddle to the Sea; Begin with Rock, End with Water; and most recently Abandoned Quarry: New and Selected Poems, winner of the 2012 Southeastern Independent Booksellers Alliance Book Award for Poetry. A professor of English and director of the Goodall Environmental Studies Center at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Lane is a 2014 inductee into the South Carolina Academy of Authors.



The Blessing


Rio Reventazï¿½n


Glendale and Little Five Falls


Pacolet Portages


Overnight at Louie's


Grindal Shoals


The Wild Pacolet


Confluence


Night on Goat Island


Lockhart Portage


Wood's Ferry Campground


Riding the Flood


Parr Shoals Reservoir


Haltiwanger Island


Approaching the Fall Line


Columbia Layover


Green Diamond


Congaree


601 Rendezvous


Lake Marion Portage


Hill's Landing


Our Bridge Too Far


The Lower Santee


Jamestown Landing


Aiming for Hampton Plantation


Atonement


Acknowledgments