Along The Edge Of America

by Peter Jenkins

Overview

The best-selling author and walker Peter Jenkins, landlubber par excellence, now takes to the waves and explores, as only he can, a part of America rich in history, mystery, and lore: from the Florida Keys to the Mexican border, by way of the Everglades, the treacherous "jungle woods," genteel southern homesteads, the Cajun marshlands, and Texas's coastal cattle country. It's a riveting encounter with hardy, resourceful, colorful - and occasionally dangerous - characters who have one thing in common: a fierce love for their world of wind and water and sun, a world that Jenkins brings uniquely to life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780395877371
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/15/1997
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	656,601
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Peter Jenkins, in addition to being a best selling writer, is an award-winning photographer. His books are part of the curriculum in over three thousand schools from coast to coast (to coast). He lives in Tennessee.

Editorial Reviews

"A wonderful Read" The Los Angeles Times

"Will challenge your worldview, subvert your smugness, and give you a hypodermic of wanderlust" The Tulsa World —

From the Publisher

At 22, Jenkins set out on a six-year walk across the country. It was a journey full of new people, places, and ideas, and it became a journey of self-discovery. His account of it (A Walk Across America, 1979) launched a successful writing career. Now nearing 40 and plagued by mid-life ennui, Jenkins once again set out, this time piloting a 25-foot boat along 1600 miles of Gulf Coast from the Florida keys to the mouth of the Rio Grande. During the two-year trip he found a startling array of intriguing characters and parts of America that few of us will ever see. The reader is also pleased that, once again, the author found himself. A travel book and more, this is recommended for all public libraries.-Jim Burns, Ottumwa, Ia.

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