[Rhodes22-list] Summer Books

[Brad Haslett]

Mary Lou,

If you like "River Horse" then read "Hunting Mr. Heartbreak" by Jonathan
Rabin and "Mississippi Solo" by Eddie Harris, both are stories of solo trips
in a small boat down the full length of the Mississippi River. Rabin, a
Seattle based Englishman, also wrote "Passage to Juneau" about a sailing
trip through the Inside Passage.  Harris, a black writer from St. Louis,
wrote a wonderful tale about walking from the north of Africa to the tip of
South Africa called "Native Stranger".  Heat-Moon has two other books I
haven't read, "Columbus in the Americas", and "This Land is Your Land:
Across America by Air".  So many good books and so little time!

Brad

On 6/15/07, Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net> wrote:
>
> Thanks Brad that's quite a list. I think I've read
> 3,4,6,12,15,17,23,26,27,30,35,42,45,47 and 66. I say think because in
> a couple of cases I've read very good accounts of the adventure but
> I'm not sure if I read the originals listed here or a later
> retelling. Some of them were read a long time ago. I just finished an
> anthology that included an excerpt from #54 by Clarence King. It was
> very good reading.
>
> I was surprised not see more sailing books on the list. Surely
> Moitessier, the Smeetons and some of the other classic sailing
> adventures are the equal of others on the list. Then again they were
> only going to list 100.
>
> Just finished Blue Highways and am now delving into PrairyErth. It's
> good writing but denser. River Horse is next.
>
> Mary Lou
> Mary Lou
> 1991 R22 Fretless
> Rock Hall, MD
>
>
> At 07:18 PM 6/15/2007, you wrote:
> >National Geographic just published a list of the greatest adventure books
> of
> >all time.  I've read numbers 2,3,8,19,23,26,27,30,58,67 and 86.  William
> >Least Heat Moon's "Blue Highways" probably doesn't qualify as an
> adventure
> >book but it is close enough and my favorite of all time.  "River Horse"
> is
> >even better.  Happy Summer reading!  Brad
> >
> >http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0404/adventure_books.html
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