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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809850003321

Autore

Lane John <1954->

Titolo

Chattooga : descending into the myth of Deliverance river / / John Lane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8203-4622-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

917.5

Soggetti

Natural history - Chattooga River Region (N.C.-Ga. and S.C.)

Chattooga River (N.C.-Ga. and S.C.) History

Chattooga River (N.C.-Ga. and S.C.) Description and travel

Chattooga River Region (N.C.-Ga. and S.C.) History

Chattooga River Region (N.C.-Ga. and S.C.) Description and travel

Chattooga River Region (N.C.-Ga. and S.C.) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

University of Georgia Press paperback edition, 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-210).

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; The Myth of the Chattooga; Headwaters; Chasing Deliverance; The Wilderness Upstream; Trail Mind; Easy Water; Pilley's Perfect River; The Narrows; Approaching the Bull; The Business of White Water; Bibliographic Note

Sommario/riassunto

Before the novel and the film Deliverance appeared in the early 1970's, any outsiders one met along the Chattooga River were likely serious canoeists or anglers. In later years, untold numbers and kinds of people have felt the draw of the river's torrents, which pour down the Appalachians along the Georgia-South Carolina border. Because of Deliverance the Chattooga looms enigmatically in our shared imagination, as iconic as Twain's Mississippi--or maybe Conrad's Congo. This is John Lane's search for the real Chattooga--for the truths that reside somewhere in the river's rapids, along its shores