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Shantyboat on the Bayous

Shantyboat on the Bayous - Hardcover

by Harlan Hubbard
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Availability:In StockContributor:Harlan HubbardPublish date:1990-06-21Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KentuckyISBN-13:9780813117171ISBN-10:813117178UPC:9780813117171Book Category:Travel, HistoryBook Subcategory:Essays & Travelogues, United StatesBook Topic:SouthSize:10.35 x 7.33 x 0.82 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SC9V0KVVH4
Since the publication of Shantyboat: A River Way of Life in 1953, Harlan Hubbard has achieved a wide reputation as a modern-day Thoreau. Not content simply to advocate a life of simplicity and self-sufficiency, Hubbard and his wife Anna in 1944 built with their own hands a houseboat on the banks of the Ohio near Cincinnati and in 1946 set out on a leisurely, five-year journey down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Shantyboat, Hubbard's recounting of their journey to New Orleans, and Payne Hollow:
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KentuckyISBN-13:9780813117171ISBN-10:813117178UPC:9780813117171Book Category:Travel, HistoryBook Subcategory:Essays & Travelogues, United StatesBook Topic:SouthSize:10.35 x 7.33 x 0.82 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SC9V0KVVH4

Writer and artist, Harlan Hubbard (1900--1988) was heavily influenced in how he lived his live by Henry David Thoreau. His books include, Shantyboat: A River Way of Life, Payne Hollow Journal, and The Woodcuts of Harlan Hubbard.


Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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