Journey on the James - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Journey on the James write by Earl Swift. This book was released on 2014-12-19. Journey on the James available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From its beginnings as a trickle of icy water in Virginia's northwest corner to its miles-wide mouth at Hampton Roads, the James River has witnessed more recorded history than any other feature of the American landscape -- as home to the continent's first successful English settlement, highway for Native Americans and early colonists, battleground in the Revolution and the Civil War, and birthplace of America's twentieth-century navy. In 1998, restless in his job as a reporter for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Earl Swift landed an assignment traveling the entire length of the James. He hadn't been in a canoe since his days as a Boy Scout, and he knew that the river boasts whitewater, not to mention man-made obstacles, to challenge even experienced paddlers. But reinforced by Pilot photographer Ian Martin and a lot of freeze-dried food and beer, Swift set out to immerse himself -- he hoped not literally -- in the river and its history. What Swift survived to bring us is this engrossing chronicle of three weeks in a fourteen-foot plastic canoe and four hundred years in the life of Virginia. Fueled by humor and a dauntless curiosity about the land, buildings, and people on the banks, and anchored by his sidekick Martin -- whose photographs accompany the text -- Swift points his bow through the ghosts of a frontier past, past Confederate forts and POW camps, antebellum mills, ruined canals, vanished towns, and effluent-spewing industry. Along the banks, lonely meadowlands alternate with suburbs and power plants, marinas and the gleaming skyscrapers of Richmond's New South downtown. Enduring dunkings, wolf spiders, near-arrest, channel fever, and twenty-knot winds, Swift makes it to the Chesapeake Bay. Readers who accompany him through his Journey on the James will come away with the accumulated pleasure, if not the bruises and mud, of four hundred miles of adventure and history in the life of one of America's great watersheds.
The River Where America Began
The River Where America Began - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The River Where America Began write by Bob Deans. This book was released on 2008-12-16. The River Where America Began available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the establishment of the first permanent English colony at Jamestown in 1607 to the fall of Richmond in 1865, the James River has been instrumental in the formation of modern America. It was along the James that British and Native American cultures collided and, in a twisted paradox, the seeds of democracy and slavery were sown side by side. The culture crafted by Virginia's learned aristocrats, merchants, farmers, and frontiersmen gave voice to the cause of the American Revolution and provided a vision for the fledgling independent nation's future. Over the course of the United States' first century, the James River bore witness to the irreconcilable contradiction of a slave-holding nation dedicated to liberty and equality for all. When that intractable conflict ignited civil war, the James River served as a critical backdrop for the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history. As he guides readers through this exciting historical narrative, Deans gives life to a dynamic cast of characters including the familiar Powhatan, John Smith, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Benedict Arnold, and Robert E. Lee, as well as those who have largely escaped historical notoriety. The River Where America Began takes readers on a journey along the James River from the earliest days of civilization nearly 15,000 years ago through the troubled English settlement at Jamestown and finishes with Lincoln's tour of the defeated capital of Richmond in 1865. Deans traces the historical course of a river whose contributions to American life are both immeasurable and unique. This innovative history invites us all to look into these restless waters in a way that connects us to our past and reminds us of who we are as Americans.
A Photographic Journey Through the James River Park System
A Photographic Journey Through the James River Park System - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Photographic Journey Through the James River Park System write by Bill Draper. This book was released on 2021-01-28. A Photographic Journey Through the James River Park System available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Celebrate one of the most beloved park systems in the nation, the James River Park System.
A Journey to the Center of the Mind
A Journey to the Center of the Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Journey to the Center of the Mind write by James Fitzgerald. This book was released on 2014-08-19. A Journey to the Center of the Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Journey on the James
Journey on the James - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Journey on the James write by Earl Swift. This book was released on 1998. Journey on the James available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
