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- Crossing the Driftless: A Canoe Trip through a Midwestern Landscape
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
The Driftless Area is the land the glaciers missed, an ancient landscape of bluffs, ridgetops, and steep valleys that long ago was a seabed. Covering much of southwestern Wisconsin, its contours were deeply carved from bedrock, not by ice but by many rivers.
Crossing the Driftless is both a traveler’s tale and an exploration of this dramatic environment, following the streams of geologic and human history. Lynne Diebel and her husband, Bob, crossed the Driftless Area by canoe, journeying 359 river miles (and six Mississippi River locks and five portages) from Faribault, Minnesota, where her family has a summer home on Cedar Lake, to their Wisconsin home in Stoughton, one block from the Yahara River. Traveling by river and portage, they paddled downstream on the Cannon and Mississippi rivers and upstream on the Wisconsin River, in the tradition of voyageurs. Lynne tells the story of their trip, but also the stories of the rivers they canoed and the many tributaries whose confluences they passed.
Finalist, Travel, Foreword Reviews IndieFab Book of the Year Awards
Honorable mention, Nonfiction book, Council for Wisconsin Writers
Winner, Recreation/Sports/Travel, Midwest Book Awards
Best books for public & secondary school libraries from university presses, American Library Association
Crossing the Driftless is both a traveler’s tale and an exploration of this dramatic environment, following the streams of geologic and human history. Lynne Diebel and her husband, Bob, crossed the Driftless Area by canoe, journeying 359 river miles (and six Mississippi River locks and five portages) from Faribault, Minnesota, where her family has a summer home on Cedar Lake, to their Wisconsin home in Stoughton, one block from the Yahara River. Traveling by river and portage, they paddled downstream on the Cannon and Mississippi rivers and upstream on the Wisconsin River, in the tradition of voyageurs. Lynne tells the story of their trip, but also the stories of the rivers they canoed and the many tributaries whose confluences they passed.
Finalist, Travel, Foreword Reviews IndieFab Book of the Year Awards
Honorable mention, Nonfiction book, Council for Wisconsin Writers
Winner, Recreation/Sports/Travel, Midwest Book Awards
Best books for public & secondary school libraries from university presses, American Library Association
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xv
- Down the Cannon
- pp. 11-30
- On the Upper Mississippi
- pp. 31-50
- Windbound on Pepin
- pp. 51-64
- Locking Through
- pp. 65-86
- Of Barges and Steamboats
- pp. 87-112
- In Their Own Pool
- pp. 113-130
- Take a Left at Wyalusing
- pp. 131-156
- Up the Lower Wisconsin
- pp. 157-170
- Fourth of July
- pp. 171-180
- Out of the Fog
- pp. 181-200
- Defeated by the Bottoms
- pp. 201-212
- River Home Yahara
- pp. 213-226
- References
- pp. 227-228
- Index of River Names
- pp. 229-230
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299302931
Related ISBN(s)
9780299302948
MARC Record
OCLC
903206771
Pages
246
Launched on MUSE
2015-02-21
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2015