Contents
Introduction
Part I: A Season Bereft
1. The Big South Fork: Productive Failure
2. The Nantahala: The Liminal Unveiled
3. My History with Dams
Part II: Road Trip of Rivers
4. The Concept
5. Easy Water: The Tippecanoe and the James
6. The Rogue’s Embrace
7. Aesthetic Convergence:The Clearwater and the Deschutes
8. Reconsidering the Liminal: The Dolores, the Conejos, and a Fractious Campground in Folsom, California
Part III: Brackish Waters
9. Big Lagoon to Maple Creek: From One World to Another
10. Fear, Delusion, and Peace on the Edisto
Part IV: Damaged Waters
11. Seeking Damaged Waters
12. Up Pistol Creek
13. Finding and Smelling the Pigeon
Part V: Night Paddling
14. Hematite
15. Energy
Part VI: Company
16. With Libby on Hematite
17. Navigating by the Stars up Citico Creek
18. Warning: German Shepherd in Bow
19. Final Thoughts
Epilogue: Letters
Bibliography