Afloat on the Ohio by Reuben Gold Thwaites ~ Full Audiobook [history]

Afloat on the Ohio by Reuben Gold Thwaites audiobook.

Genre: history

In Afloat on the Ohio, historian Reuben Gold Thwaites turns a six-week family outing into a moving, mile-by-mile portrait of Americas great border river. Setting off from Redstone in western Pennsylvania in a small skiff christened the Pilgrim, Thwaites travels with his wife, their ten-year-old son, and a physician friend, choosing the rivers level view and nightly camps to better imagine what explorers, flatboatmen, and pioneers once saw. As the current carries them past wooded slopes, islands, and wide bottoms, the journey becomes a living notebook: birds and wildflowers, shifting weather, tricky riffles, and the practical routines of life ashore and afloat mingle with sharp observations of river towns, dialects, and the industrial smoke beginning to transform the valley. Along the way, Thwaites repeatedly peels back the present to stage the past, recalling mound builders, Native nations, French and British rivalries, frontier surveyors, and the westward surge of settlers who made the Ohio a highway of history. Part travel log, part historical meditation, the book asks what is gained and lost as a landscape of memory becomes a modern working river.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:05:24) Chapter 01

(00:38:35) Chapter 02

(00:46:30) Chapter 03

(00:59:10) Chapter 04

(01:13:21) Chapter 05

(01:31:21) Chapter 06

(01:47:12) Chapter 07

(02:01:56) Chapter 08

(02:17:01) Chapter 09

(02:30:32) Chapter 10

(02:54:21) Chapter 11

(03:18:44) Chapter 12

(03:36:38) Chapter 13

(04:01:24) Chapter 14

(04:25:19) Chapter 15

(04:52:42) Chapter 16

(05:16:37) Chapter 17

(05:34:22) Chapter 18

(05:53:24) Chapter 19

(06:16:01) Chapter 20

(06:30:01) Chapter 21

(06:50:39) Chapter 22

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