{"product_id":"waist-deep-in-black-water-9780820326214","title":"Waist Deep in Black Water","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Lane has scaled a granite dome in the Suriname rain forest and waded past cottonmouths in the heart of a Florida cypress swamp. He has shadowed crocodiles in a Yucat n mangrove thicket and paddled the rapids of North Carolina's Tuckaseegee River in search of a drowned kayaker. \u003ci\u003eWaist Deep in Black Water\u003c\/i\u003e offers a collection of Lane's own writings that range from wilderness exploration, to conservation issues, to explorations of family history in Spartanburg, South Carolina. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLane's trek to the Medicine Wheel National Historic Landmark in Wyoming becomes an occasion to draw connections between religion, sexuality, and mountain lore. A hike into Kentucky's Red River Gorge prompts a meditation on the words and spirit of Wendell Berry, who helped prevent the gorge from being dammed. Some of Lane's writings are set closer to home, where the South Carolina hills meet the Blue Ridge. In \"Something Rare as a Dwarf-Flowered Heartleaf,\" Lane recounts his campaign to stop the development of a woodland area within Spartanburg's city limits. Family issues also surface, as in \"Confluence: Pacolet River.\" Here Lane kayaks through country where his family has lived for generations as he reckons the distances between himself and his farming, millworking forebears. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSomething is always at stake wherever Lane takes us: a stand of old-growth trees, a primate population, a friendship, a soul. Lane bestows loving attention on the places and people he visits in this collection and, in the process, goes beyond the traditional concerns of nature and travel writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Lane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.64h x 5.56w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820326214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJOHN LANE is a professor of English and environmental studies at Wofford College. His books include \u003ci\u003eCircling Home, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMy Paddle to the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCoyote Settles the South\u003c\/i\u003e (all Georgia). He also coedited, with Gerald Thurmond, \u003ci\u003eThe Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South\u003c\/i\u003e (also Georgia). He has published several volumes of poetry, essays, and a novel, as well as a selection of his online columns, \u003ci\u003eThe Best of the Kudzu Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eAnthropocene Blues: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is his most recent work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40202807804019,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":23.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_321a7781-fcd4-4a31-a033-1cce11db1257.jpg?v=1656252811","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/waist-deep-in-black-water-9780820326214","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}