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This little volume is a river dweller's homage to forty years inspired by the spirit of Susquehanna, a return gift of storytelling, poetry, and color images. Eight essays to turn us on our heads so all the stuff in our pockets--state lines, dams, power plants, mines, the lint of classification--all drop out and we see Susquehanna for who she is, nothing but an unbound goddess. We think we have restored her to a place of honor. She is the one always at work touching us deeply and restoring Our honor. From a lofty bridge in a moment long ago I caught a glimpse of a great river meeting a great bay, and the unknown river country slept in my imagination till good fortune brought ...

Mentored by anthropologist George Beal, sixteen-year old redhead Davy Match of Baltimore goes to the South Pacific in search of the endangered leatherback sea turtle and the Mota people who protect it. He joins a local boy, Abraham Iringikeri. They canoe their dugout over clear lagoons, walk through noisy rainforest, and ride the tail of a typhoon past a taboo headland. Their journey brings them face to face with a forest girl, a wild man, a sorcerer, and giant turtles and crocodiles. Joining the boys are Niki Motari from the village of Shell Money Reef and many other children and youths who make a courageous effort to protect Mother Babaru and restore the clan which carries her name. Th ...

In the conclusion of the trilogy, Professor Beal sends Davy, now a high school senior, to East Africa to find a small tribe of mountain people, the Te’uk, whom he had contacted and studied as a young man. Davy is caught up in the fate of a boy his age, Lokole, who has suffered deep trauma. Davy and Lokole travel through the fictional country of Burando, witnesses to genocide, arms trading, and the smuggling of blood minerals from Conga. This is the third book of the Adventures of Davy Match, preceeded by 'Babaru of the South Seas' and 'The Chocolate Dam'.

In the second Adventure of Davy Match, Davy, now sixteen, is invited by Professor Beal to join an archeological dig in Anatolia. The professor gets into a jam with a rare letter on archeology he’s “borrowed” from the British Museum, and Davy is sent off to Kurdistan to lay low, with this letter— written by the hand of Benjamin Franklin. On a mountaintop, by the enormous head of an ancient God-King, he meets Gül, a mysterious Kurdish girl, who instructs him to go to the town of Hasankeyf on the River Tigris, a town doomed to be flooded by the construction of a hydro dam. Gül challenges him to help her find the grave of her missing brother, a Kurdish fighter.

Contents: 1. 'Personal Journal From Standing Rock' is an account of five days spent in the Lakota Nation with water protectors opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline. 2. 'The Pope of Buenos Aires' tells of two weeks in Argentina exploring Pope Francis' spiritual and political roots. 3. "Orwell's Mustache" is a rousing interpolation on George Orwell's classic 'Animal Farm'. The title refers to Paul Revere’s famous set of Revolutionary numbers, “One if by land, Two if by sea.” Born on the day of the “Midnight Ride,” I feel kin enough to the revered epigram to give it new life: One by land, Two by sea, Three by Olin. Lantern #1: We ignore the wisdom ...