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What I'm Reading Spring 2010

Joseph McElroy

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River-Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across America
William Least Heat-Moon
Penguin, 2001
506 pp., $14 paper

A River Sutra
Gita Mehta
Vintage, 1994
291 pp., $14.95 paper

Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West
James Lawrence Powell
University of California Press, 2008
304 pp., $27.50 cloth

Dead Pool coverA book, a boat; I am still grasping its scope, a journey in the mid-1990s from New York City five thousand miles to the Pacific—inland. A voyage through the land—it sounds metaphorical but is endlessly particular, this month-by-month navigating of unpredictable waterways in a twenty-two-by-eight-foot cross between a lobster dory and an old-fashioned harbor tug, its Osage name Nikawa, which is “River-Horse” in English, given by its Native American designer, skipper, compendious thinker, and writer, William Least Heat-Moon.

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