Shantyboat on the Bayous - Hardcover

by Harlan Hubbard (Author)

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:

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'An account of life amid the elements; the backlands and backwaters, weather and currents that require human skill to be great because human control is so small. The boat conveys its household into the wilderness. From its windows the world is newly seen and understood'--Wendell Berry

Author Biography

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.