Shantyboat: A River Way of Life
ISBN-13:
9780813113593
ISBN-10:
0813113598
Edition:
2nd
Author:
Harlan Hubbard
Publication date:
1977
Publisher:
University Press of Kentucky
Format:
Paperback
368 pages
Category:
State & Local
,
United States History
,
Boating
,
Water Sports
,
Americas History
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ISBN-13:
9780813113593
ISBN-10:
0813113598
Edition:
2nd
Author:
Harlan Hubbard
Publication date:
1977
Publisher:
University Press of Kentucky
Format:
Paperback
368 pages
Category:
State & Local
,
United States History
,
Boating
,
Water Sports
,
Americas History
Summary
Shantyboat: A River Way of Life (ISBN-13: 9780813113593 and ISBN-10: 0813113598), written by authors
Harlan Hubbard, was published by University Press of Kentucky in 1977.
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Description
Shantyboat is the story of a leisurely journey down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. For most people such a journey is the stuff that dreams are made of, but for Harlan and Anna Hubbard it became a cherished reality. In the fall of 1944 they built a houseboat, small but neatly accommodated to their needs, on the bank of the Ohio near Cincinnati, and in it after a pause of two years they set out to drift down the river.
In their small craft, the Hubbards became one with the flow of the river and its changing weathers. An artist by profession, Harlan Hubbard records with graceful ease the many facets of their life on the river-the panorama of fields and woods, summer gardening, foraging expeditions for nuts and berries, dangers from storms and treacherous currents, the quiet solitude of the mists of early morning. Their life is sustained by the provender of bank and stream, useful things made and found, and mutual aid and wisdom from people met along the journey. It is a life marked by simplicity and independence, strenuous at times, but joyous, with leisure for painting and music, for observation and contemplation.
In their small craft, the Hubbards became one with the flow of the river and its changing weathers. An artist by profession, Harlan Hubbard records with graceful ease the many facets of their life on the river-the panorama of fields and woods, summer gardening, foraging expeditions for nuts and berries, dangers from storms and treacherous currents, the quiet solitude of the mists of early morning. Their life is sustained by the provender of bank and stream, useful things made and found, and mutual aid and wisdom from people met along the journey. It is a life marked by simplicity and independence, strenuous at times, but joyous, with leisure for painting and music, for observation and contemplation.
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