Copyright © 1999 by William Least Heat-Moon
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Heat-Moon, William Least.
River-Horse : the logbook of a boat across America /
William Least Heat-Moon.
p. cm.
“A Peter Davison book.”
ISBN 0-395-63626-4
1. United States—Description and travel. 2. Heat-Moon, William Least—Journeys—United States. 3. Inland navigation—United States. 4. Boats and boating—United States. 5. Dories (Boats)—United States. I. Title.
E169.04.H43 1999
917.304'929—dc21 99-31517 CIP
eISBN 978-0-547-52368-2
v1.1013
Text maps by Ray Sterner and Stephen M. Archer.
A landform atlas of the United States is available at http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/.
Title page lettering and endpaper map by Ed Richardson.
Endpaper drawing and painting on page [>] of Nikawa by Rod Guthrie.
Photo credits: Robert Lindholm: pages [>], [>], [>],[>], [>], [>], [>]. David Pulliam: pages [>], [>], [>], [>].