Rivers Revealed Rediscovering America's Waterways [Paperback]

Written in an engaging, conversational style, Rivers Revealed combines the authors lifelong love of Americas waterways with practical and historic information gathered from his three decades as a professional riverlorian for the Delta Queen Steamboat Company in New Orleans. A modern-day Huck Finn, Jerry Hay spins yarns laced with personal anecdotes on such topics as navigating 500 miles of the Wabash River, the trials and tribulations of building a sternwheeler, reading the river, how to plan your own river adventure, a hair-raising but humorous river rescue, an unforgettable goose named Gilligan, the language of the rivers and riverboats, early to present-day river navigation, and much, much more. A book for all who love Mark Twain, these river adventures will entertain the landlubber and engage the boating enthusiast.

Jerry M. Hay has appeared in documentaries on American rivers for PBS, National Geographic, and the History Channel. The author of numerous books on American rivers, Hay lives in Floyds Knobs, Indiana, when he is not on the boats.

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Boy in a Johnboat
2. Wabash 500
3. Wabash Queen
4. Reading the River
5. River Guide Books
6. Gilligan Goose
7. Rescue from a Dock
8. Great Duck Race
9. Anatomy of a River
10. Language of the Rivers
11. Nine Days on a Towboat
12. Navigable River Know-How
13. Bizarre River Experiences
14. Evolution of Riverboats
15. Restless River
16. Steamboat Passengers
17. Ghost of Mary Greene
18. River Royalty
19. Top Ten River Towns
20. Canoeing Misadventures
21. Grand Excursion 2004
22. Potpourri

Bibliography
Index

River historians, folklorists, and buffs will enjoy and learn from Rivers Revealed: Rediscovering America's Waterways. It can sit on the shelf, ready for reading in long or short installments.Sept. 2008The opening chapters of this book bring visions of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn as Hay describeslã”