LEADER 04032nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910960672403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781438439464 010 $a1438439466 010 $a9781461906377 010 $a1461906377 024 7 $a10.1515/9781438439464 035 $a(CKB)2550000000059475 035 $a(OCoLC)756496415 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10574135 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000568969 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11371499 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000568969 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10536428 035 $a(PQKB)10882008 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407273 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407273 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10574135 035 $a(DE-B1597)682281 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781438439464 035 $a(Perlego)2671839 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000059475 100 $a20110228d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDrifting $etwo weeks on the Hudson /$fMike Freeman 210 $aAlbany $cExcelsior Editions/State University of New York Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (269 p.) 225 0 $aExcelsior Editions 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781438439457 311 08$a1438439458 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aRivers and the river -- Dimensions -- Mountains and wild -- My land, your land -- The maturity of idols -- Tenting tonight -- Quiet is the word -- Where the wild things were -- The country behind -- Portals -- Cogs and wheels -- Pink flamingos -- The gospel of Dean Wormer -- Borders -- The gravity of Greeks -- The shadow -- Still, still water -- O Hudson -- Red/blue -- Imaginarium -- Into the wild frontier -- Conjugal -- Purging Strangelove -- The wolf -- Such high zest -- The wide water -- Loomings. 330 $aThis candid account of the author's two-week canoe trip down the Hudson River offers an introspective and humorous look at both the river and Recession-Era America. New to fatherhood and fresh from ten years in an Alaskan village, Mike Freeman sets out to relearn his country, and realizes it's in a far greater midlife crisis than he could ever be. With an eye on the Hudson's past, he addresses America's present anxieties?from race, gender, and marriage to energy, labor, and warfare?with empathy and honesty, acknowledging the difficulties surrounding each issue without succumbing to pessimism or ideology.From the river's headwaters in the Adirondacks, Freeman follows the Hudson south through America's first industrial ghost towns, where ruin begs for rebirth. Next is the Hudson Valley and the river's 153-mile estuary, with its once-teeming fisheries. Here, agriculture is redefining itself, while at West Point, officer candidates train for America's murky modern wars. The Hudson Highlands, too, are prominent, the place where Americans first wed God to nature, and where the mountains remain a potent place to mull that bond. From there it's on to Manhattan, with its skyline that symbolizes the world's financial might as well as its startling fragility.As controversial as it is comforting, Freeman's narrative makes us think in hard ways about America as the country itself drifts toward an uncertain future. But throughout, of course, is the magnificent Hudson, whose resilient beauty speaks well both to nature's toughness and America's greatest strength?the ability to redirect and change course when necessary. 606 $aCanoes and canoeing$zHudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) 607 $aHudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)$xDescription and travel 607 $aHudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)$xDescription and travel 615 0$aCanoes and canoeing 676 $a974.7/3 700 $aFreeman$b Mike$f1968-$01808201 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910960672403321 996 $aDrifting$94358335 997 $aUNINA