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February/March Book Club

March 26, 2022 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

This month’s book club will be held on Saturday, March 26, 2022, at 10:30AM at Pomegranate Books.
River-Horse: A Journey Across America by William Least Heat-Moon
In River-Horse, the preeminent chronicler of American back roads recounts his singular voyage on American waters from sea to sea. Along the route, he offers a lyrical and ceaselessly fascinating shipboard perspective on the country’s rivers, lakes, canals, and landscapes. Brimming with history, drama, humor, and wisdom, River-Horse belongs in the pantheon of American travel literature.
In his most ambitious journey ever, Heat-Moon sets off aboard a small boat he named Nikawa (“river horse” in Osage) from the Atlantic at New York Harbor in hopes of entering the Pacific near Astoria, Oregon. He and his companion, Pilotis, struggle to cover some five thousand watery miles — more than any other cross-country river traveler has ever managed — often following in the wakes of our most famous explorers, from Henry Hudson to Lewis and Clark.
En route, the voyagers confront massive floods, submerged rocks, dangerous weather, and their own doubts about whether they can complete the trip. But the hard days yield up incomparable pleasures: strangers generous with help and eccentric tales, landscapes unchanged since Sacagawea saw them, riverscapes flowing with a lively past, and the growing belief that efforts to protect our lands and waters are beginning to pay off. And, throughout its course, the expedition enjoys coincidences so breathtaking as to suggest the intervention of a divine and witty Providence.
Teeming with humanity and high adventure, Heat-Moon’s account is an unsentimental and original arteriogram of our nation at the edge of the millennium.”

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Date:
March 26, 2022
Time:
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
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Pomegranate Books
4418 Park Ave
Wilmington, NC 28403 United States
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(910) 452-1107
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