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In the land of the wild onion : travels along Vermont's Winooski River
- Title
- In the land of the wild onion : travels along Vermont's Winooski River / Charles Fish.
- Author
- Fish, Charles.
- Publication
- Burlington, VT : University of Vermont Press ; Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, [2006], ©2006.
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| Text | Request in advance | F57.W73 F57 2006 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 253 pages : map; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Charles Fish sets off on a journey down Vermont's Winooski River, from the headwaters in Cabot to river's end at Lake Champlain, in order to rediscover the river valley of his youth and to consider the power of place in all our lives. Recounting travels by foot, car, and canoe, In the Land of the Wild Onion offers engaging and often humorous tales of adventures along the river, of impenetrable thickets and backbreaking portages, of battles with a recalcitrant canoe, of nights camping out among the mosquitoes."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Outdoor life > Vermont > Winooski River Valley
- Winooski River Valley (Vt.) > Environmental conditions
- Winooski River Valley (Vt.) > Description and travel
- Winooski River (Vt.) > Description and travel
- Winooski River Valley (Vt.) > Social life and customs
- Fish, Charles > Travel > Vermont > Winooski River Valley
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-253).
- Contents
- 1. My river, my valley -- 2. Headwaters -- 3. Growing up at the headwaters -- 4. Poking around, poking along -- 5. Hap's Mill -- 6. The making of a valley -- 7. I take to the water -- 8. The deer hunter -- 9. In search of the wild onion -- 10. From influent to effluent : a clean story and some dirty ones -- 11. Backyard camping -- 12. Stream dynamics : the water woman and the surficial geologist -- 13. A perilous portage in a city of rivers -- 14. The trout fisherman -- 15. The long march and a midnight alarm -- 16. The farmers -- 17. From gorge to gorge -- 18. The bobcat man -- 19. The haunted house -- 20. Power -- 21. The Abenaki -- 22. A city of mills : the superintendent and the doctor -- 23. To the lake -- 24. The trapper -- 25. Learning to see.
- ISBN
- 158465550X (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006001966
- 9781584655503
- OCLC
- OCM63178902
- SCSB-5260199
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries