Winner of two Silver Medals
Memoir, Nautilus Book Awards
Regional Nonfiction, Independent Publisher Book Awards
Homebound Publications | 2016 | 180 pages | ISBN 978-1-938846-33-5
Paperback at $17.95, also in Hardcover, Audio Book in early 2017 | Order Your Copy Today
Meet Henry David Thoreau, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and other intrepid explorers as you travel northern Maine’s rugged woods and waters. In a wild country of ledge and trees that stubbornly resists encroaching civilization, find a young couple padding through the trials, triumphs, and sheer mental and physical exhaustion of wilderness travel severely testing their ability to get along and even complete the trip. Fill your ears with roaring rapids and yodeling loons. Smell pungent spruce and dank swamps. Encounter moose and majestic sunrises cloaked in morning mist. A few pages, and you will find yourself deep in the evergreen forest.
What People Are Saying About This Book
“If you have been on a canoe trip, you know the adventure is the center of a complex venn diagram of relationship, history, and a testing of character and adaptability. David captures this and more in an artful way that will make you dream of hitting the water to commune with nature and your very soul.”
—Walter Opuszynski, Northern Forest Canoe Trail, Trail Director
“Readers will hang onto the back of David Leff’s roiling canoe in this story. He steers through the early fractures of a relationship amid the beauties and terror of a wilder Allagash, and skillfully adds in details of the explorers and exploiters who floated before him. Refreshingly honest. A very strong narrative voice!”
—Christine Woodside, Editor-in-Chief, Appalachia
