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Crossing the Driftless: A Canoe Trip through a Midwestern Landscape
Lynne Diebel
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Description for Crossing the Driftless: A Canoe Trip through a Midwestern Landscape
Paperback. Both a traveler s tale of a 359-mile canoe trip and an exploration of the dramatic environment of the Upper Midwest s Driftless region, following the streams of geologic and human history." Num Pages: 248 pages, 15 maps, 9 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: BM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 277.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Madison, United States
ISBN
9780299302948
SKU
V9780299302948
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About Lynne Diebel
Lynne Diebel grew up in southern Minnesota, USA and has lived in Stoughton, Wisconsin, USA, since 1974 with her husband, Bob Diebel, and their four children. Her many books are centered on the landscapes and natural world of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Lynne has been canoeing lakes since childhood. As an adult, she learned to canoe whitewater rivers with Bob, and ... Read more
Reviews for Crossing the Driftless: A Canoe Trip through a Midwestern Landscape
“[Diebel] is clearly of the mind that a canoe trip is the proper speed at which to appreciate a landscape. Such a narrative echoes nineteenth-century writers like Mark Twain, George Catlin, Reuben Gold Thwaites, and others whom Diebel read in preparation for paddling and writing. But she deftly interweaves her trip with exposition about the rivers’ deep geological and more ... Read more