- ISBN13: 9780814334256
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Product Description
This title chronicles in words and pictures a five-day trip made by two Detroit Free Press journalists up the abused Rouge River in metro Detroit. There is no river quite like Detroit’s Rouge River. Named by French explo… More >>
Illustrated with full-color photography on almost every two-page spread, Up the Rouge! Paddling Detroit’s Hidden River is a true-life travelogue of a quest to paddle his way up a sadly over-polluted and abused tributary to the Great Lakes. From dealing with logjams to glimpses of water birds to close encounters with the horrific stench of sewer grates, Up the Rouge! is an unflinchingly honest look at what the proximity of a city does to a river, as well an eye-opening journey. Told in brief passages dated by day and hour, Up the Rouge! Paddling Detroit’s Hidden River is truly an up-close and personal picture of what it’s like to paddle up the Rouge… not that the authors particularly recommend doing so (at least, not without a thorough set of inoculations against disease).
Rating: 5 / 5
If you grew up anywhere near Rouge Park or in Dearborn, or west Detroit….you will love this book. The pictures are great, the story is great. The only thing missing is the smell.
Rating: 5 / 5