Book Review - Five Stars
River-Horse: A Voyage Across America by William Least Heat-Moon
The author, William Least Heat-Moon, is a man with an original thought and a dream that desperately needed doing.
This wasn’t a whim of the moment. This was meticulously researched, investigated, and rehearsed. Driven by single minded determination, the author dedicated himself to see this perilous and dangerous voyage to its arduous completion. I was impressed. The story progresses at an ever intensifying rate.
Excerpts:
Who can say where a voyage starts? Not the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way.
It was pointless to be afraid, for fear is useful only to those who yet have hope.
The rock-riven river drops more than three thousand feet from our starting place to the mouth, a distance of only 130 air miles.
On the international rating scale, rapids on the Salmon range up to 4 (“difficult”), with the exception of the one nearly at its mouth, a mean constriction with the seemingly playful name of the Slide which in high water can become a class 6, “substantial hazard to life.”
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