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Title: River-Horse: Across America by Boat by William Least Heat-Moon, Barrett Whitener ISBN: 0-7366-4955-7 Publisher: Books on Tape, Inc. Pub. Date: January, 2001 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 14 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.49 (75 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Join LHM and Nikawa on this Journey
Comment: After finishing "Blue Hiways" some time ago, and enjoying it so much, I turned to Least Heat-Moon's boat gig, "River horse." Overall I liked this work. This was in some ways similar of course, but genuinely different than his first over-land trip with "Ghost Dancing." "Nikawa" is a new form of transport, and the route is fixed, and there is a schedule that is adhered to, understandably. And again, LHM takes himself and his readers to a part of America most of us miss, just as in his first book. "Pilotis," the assistant in this journey reminded me of the "Phaedrus" concept used by Pirsig, but Pirsig was Phaedrus, and Pilotis was a friend of LHM's, an actual companion.
To me it is free-flow reading, and descriptive of the natural surroundings he encountered near and afar, on this 5,000 mile journey into the Real America. How many reading of this journey wanted to leave their cubicles and mundane suburban life behind while reading "River Horse?" I did. And I have!
This book can be a bit "prosy" and he offers thoughts and views on "this and that." It is quite an interesting journey. Give it a read. LHM is free, and can make you dream.
Rating: 4
Summary: Blue Highways via the Water
Comment: William Least Heat-Moon set out many years ago to see the country by travelling only on "Blue Highways"--those roads marked on a map that never achieve four-lane or divided highway status. Reading it in high school, I was captivated by his love for adventure and people. Well, he's done it again with "River Horse"--doing the same thing but only by river this time. His writing skills make you believe you are right there with him, from sights to sound to smell. For anyone who has the thirst for adventure, or who has only dreamed of it ... this book will take you to a new plain. I highly recommend it - Mr. Heat-Moon is a gifted writer who is already planning his next escapade.
Rating: 3
Summary: No "Blue Highways"
Comment: "River-Horse" is an OK summer read, but it's written by a Heat-Moon who's changed in the last twenty years, about a different sort of a journey. His motivation has changed from curiosity and wanderlust to a kind of grim obsession with executing a plan. Instead of a shoestring voyage of self-discovery and nation-discovery after the end of his first marriage, the transcontinental boat trip of "River-Horse" is conceived as a well-financed grind so hard that broke up his second. Heat-Moon's connectedness with the small towns he visited is what made "Blue Highways" such a wonderful book, but in "River-Horse" those connections are all but lost. "Pilotus" could have been seven interesting people, but instead is rendered as a somewhat pretentious and preachy amalgam. Sadly, I think "Blue Highways" was a flash in the pan, and the present Heat-Moon will never again charm us in the same way that the past one did.
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Title: Blue Highways:A Journey Into America by William Least Heat-Moon, William Least Heat Moon ISBN: 0316353299 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 19 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: PrairyErth (A Deep Map): An Epic History of the Tallgrass Prairie Country by William Least Heat-Moon ISBN: 039592569X Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 15 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Columbus in the Americas by William Least Heat-Moon ISBN: 0471211893 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 30 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Roads : Driving America's Great Highways by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0684868857 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Travels With Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0140053204 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1980 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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