Hudson River - Softcover

Lourie, Peter

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ISBN 10: 1563977036 ISBN 13: 9781563977039

Publisher: Boyds Mills Press, 1998

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Here is a fascinating day-by-day account of the author's 315 mile canoe trip down the Hudson River, from the Adirondack Mountains, where the river is born, to New York City's Battery Park, where it empties into the sea. Full-color photographs plus a simple and lively text give young readers the feel of shooting white water, gliding through the mountainous Hudson Highlands, and, finally plowing the busy waters off the shore of Manhattan. Throughout the trip Peter Lourie serves as a thoughtful and intrepid guide to one of America's great rivers.

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About the Author:

Peter Lourie is the author of Amazon: A Young Reader's Look at the Last Frontier from Boyds Mills Press and Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon: A Chronicle of an Incan Treasure. He lives in the Hudson River town of Beacon, New York.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 2-5-- Lourie recounts a 315-mile canoe journey from the headwaters of the Hudson to New York City. Each page is liberally illustrated with good quality full-color photographs; those of the locks at the Champlain canal are particularly effective due to the unusually low vantage point of the canoe. Only one map is included, and readers must continually flip back to it to monitor the author's position and progress. The information on the history of logging on the river is interesting, but in general, the photographs provide more impact than the rather lifeless text. For an overall sense of the vastness and variety of the river, Thomas Locker's Where the River Begins (Dial, 1984) is more compelling but has no information. George Ancona's excellent Riverkeeper (Macmillan, 1990) focuses mostly on the job of the riverkeeper and his monitoring of pollution. Lourie's effort fills the gap in geography and sports collections. --Kate Hegarty Bouman, Susquehanna Valley Junior High School, Conklin, NY
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