John Lane
Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Like Huck Finn, Lane sees a river journey as a portal to change, but unlike Twain's character, Lane isn't escaping. He's getting intimate with the river that flows right past his home in the Spartanburg suburbs. Lane's three hundred mile float trip takes his down the Broad River and into Lake Marion before continuing down the Santee River.
Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Language
English
Description
One night, poet and environmental writer John Lane tuned in to a sound from behind his house that he had never heard before: the nearby eerie and captivating howls of coyotes. Since this was Spartanburg, South Carolina, and not Missoula, Montana, Lane set out to discover all he could about his new and unexpected neighbors.
Coyote Settles the South is the story of his journey through the Southeast, as he visits coyote territories: swamps, nature...
Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Before the novel and the film Deliverance appeared in the early 1970s, any outsiders one met along the Chattooga River were likely serious canoeists or anglers. In later years, untold numbers and kinds of people have felt the draw of the river's torrents, which pour down the Appalachians along the Georgia-South Carolina border. Because of Deliverance the Chattooga looms enigmatically in our shared imagination, as iconic as Twain's Mississippi-or maybe...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
After many years of limited commitments to people or places, writer and naturalist John Lane married in his late forties and settled down in his hometown of Spartanburg, in the South Carolina piedmont. He, his wife, and two stepsons built a sustainable home in the woods near Lawson's Fork Creek. Soon after settling in, Lane pinpointed his location on a topographical map. Centering an old, chipped saucer over his home, he traced a circle one mile in...
Author
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
A collection of essays by John Lane takes the reader on a journey through the Saluda-Reedy watershed, a trip that unfolds through the fine-art photography captured by photographers Tom Blagden, Clay Bolt, jon holloway, and Ben Geer Keys.
6) Scotlander
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
When the Big C takes her best friend too soon, Willa Jenkins struggles to recapture the joy in her life, and all she wants is to get away from LA's glitzy party circuit. But superfan Valentina had other plans. For her final, wickedly funny act, she's packing her bestie off on a two-week Outlander-themed experience at Balcraigie Castle, Scotland. Expecting a couple of weeks with Valentina's hot brother Gabe, Willa gets more than she bargained for when...