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OverviewWriter and weekend outdoorsman Avrel Seale had always dreamed of boating down a river to the sea, but he had never found the right boat, the right river, or the right opportunity. Then, at age fifty, he suffered a massive brain hemorrhage, depriving him of the use of one arm. But, as he writes, “dreams are stubborn things,” and less than two years after his stroke, he was again mulling such a trip. With the recruitment of a lifelong friend and the purchase of a two-person pedal kayak, he set out to journey down the Nueces River in South Texas to the Gulf of Mexico. The resulting memoir is a study in perseverance and problem solving, set against the backdrop of an underappreciated river. Seale must overcome numerous physical, mechanical, and logistical challenges even to get to the launch. Then he and Wade Walker set out to descend the Nueces, once considered by Mexico to be its border with the United States. Today, the Nueces (Spanish for nuts) is a twisting ribbon of prehistoric beauty, lush and wild, secretly flowing just out of view of the cotton towns, truck stops, and wind farms that line the highways of Texas’s coastal plains. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Avrel SealePublisher: Texas Christian University Press Imprint: Texas Christian University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.249kg ISBN: 9780875658520ISBN 10: 0875658520 Pages: 166 Publication Date: 22 September 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews"""I can't decide what impressed me the most about Avrel Seale's wonderfully engaging The River Nuts, the engineering feat of retrofitting a tandem pedal kayak to accommodate his body impaired by a stroke, or the journey itself through the harsh Texas elements of rain, heat, alligators, and rabid wolf spiders. Seale chronicles his experience with grace and laugh-aloud humor, but as in every great river journey from Huckleberry Finn to Goodbye to a River, the author discovers more about himself as he dives into a deep reservoir of courage and perseverance and friendship with fellow kayaker Wade Walker. Can anything match the beauty of seeing wild swans on a muddy river? I couldn't put this book down."" --Thomas Zigal, award-winning author of Many Rivers to Cross" Author InformationAvrel Seale is the author of ten books, including memoir, humor, history, religion, and unsolved mystery. Much of his career has been at the University of Texas at Austin, as editor of its alumni magazine, speechwriter for its president, and a writer for its news, marketing, and development offices. He and his wife, Kirstin, have three sons. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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