Whitewater Home Companion: Southeastern Rivers, Volume 2
2nd Edition
Published on 8. June 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
174 pages
978-1-63404-378-6 (ISBN)
Description
Laugh out loud with this hilarious collection of William Nealy's beloved river maps, together in book form for easy reading!
A celebrated author and cartoonist, William Nealy gained cult-hero status in the outdoor-sports community by blending his passion for the outdoors with his unique style of caricatures. He had a knack for learning-not by doing but by crashing and burning! For years his informative and hilarious cartoon maps of popular canoeing and kayaking streams have delighted whitewater paddlers. Practically collectors' items, these maps are sought by paddlers all over the United States for their relevance and wild insider's perspective.
A brilliant and uproarious follow-up to Whitewater Home Companion: Southeastern Rivers, Volume I, this second volume is a special guidebook to 11 celebrated Southeastern streams in six states. It's special because it provides, in map format, a wealth of information on each of the rivers described-and additionally special because it is embellished throughout with William's nationally renowned art and humor.
William was a phenomenon, unilaterally deciding that whitewater paddlers should have a sense of humor. Now, largely because of him, most of them do. If you have any doubts concerning your own sense of humor, you should read this book just to be on the safe side.
Featured Rivers:
Appalachia
Chattahoochee, Atlanta
Cumberland, "Below the Falls"
Cumberland, "Big South Fork Gorge"
James River at Richmond
Maury River, Goshen Pass
New River Gorge, Revisited
New River, South Fork
Potomac River, Lower
Shenandoah River
Wilson Creek Gorge
William's zany illustrations have been bound and bandaged together in a monumental new collection of books that include cartoons long out of print. Whitewater Home Companion is a wonderful part of The William Nealy Collection, ideal for anyone who loves to laugh and enjoys the great outdoors.
A celebrated author and cartoonist, William Nealy gained cult-hero status in the outdoor-sports community by blending his passion for the outdoors with his unique style of caricatures. He had a knack for learning-not by doing but by crashing and burning! For years his informative and hilarious cartoon maps of popular canoeing and kayaking streams have delighted whitewater paddlers. Practically collectors' items, these maps are sought by paddlers all over the United States for their relevance and wild insider's perspective.
A brilliant and uproarious follow-up to Whitewater Home Companion: Southeastern Rivers, Volume I, this second volume is a special guidebook to 11 celebrated Southeastern streams in six states. It's special because it provides, in map format, a wealth of information on each of the rivers described-and additionally special because it is embellished throughout with William's nationally renowned art and humor.
William was a phenomenon, unilaterally deciding that whitewater paddlers should have a sense of humor. Now, largely because of him, most of them do. If you have any doubts concerning your own sense of humor, you should read this book just to be on the safe side.
Featured Rivers:
Appalachia
Chattahoochee, Atlanta
Cumberland, "Below the Falls"
Cumberland, "Big South Fork Gorge"
James River at Richmond
Maury River, Goshen Pass
New River Gorge, Revisited
New River, South Fork
Potomac River, Lower
Shenandoah River
Wilson Creek Gorge
William's zany illustrations have been bound and bandaged together in a monumental new collection of books that include cartoons long out of print. Whitewater Home Companion is a wonderful part of The William Nealy Collection, ideal for anyone who loves to laugh and enjoys the great outdoors.
More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United States
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Black-and-white illustrations throughout
Dimensions
Height: 206 mm
Width: 268 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63404-378-6 (9781634043786)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
William Nealy
Whitewater Home Companion, Southeastern Rivers
Book
04/1994
Dolly Ridge Press
€29.16
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Person
William "Not Bill" Nealy was a wild, gentle, brilliant artist and creator turned cult hero who wrote 10 books for Menasha Ridge Press from 1982 to 2000. William shared his hard-won "crash-and-learn" experiences through humorous hand-drawn cartoons and illustrated river maps that enabled generations to follow in his footsteps. His subjects included paddling, mountain biking, skiing, and inline skating. His hand-drawn, poster-size river maps of the Nantahala, Ocoee, Chattooga, Gauley, Youghiogheny, and several other rivers are still sought after and in use today.
William was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He and his wife, Holly Wallace, spent their adult years in a home William built in the woods on the outskirts of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, along with an assortment of dogs, lizards, pigs, snakes, turtles, and amphibians. William died in 2001.
His longtime friend and publisher, Bob Sehlinger, wrote: "When William Nealy died in 2001, paddling lost its Poet Laureate, one of its best teachers, and its greatest icon. William was arguably the best-known ambassador of whitewater sport, entertaining and instructing hundreds of thousands of paddlers through his illustrated books, including the classics: Whitewater Home Companion Volumes I and II, Whitewater Tales of Terror, Kayaks to Hell, and his best-known work, Kayak, which combined expert paddling instruction with artful caricatures and parodies of the whitewater community itself."
William was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He and his wife, Holly Wallace, spent their adult years in a home William built in the woods on the outskirts of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, along with an assortment of dogs, lizards, pigs, snakes, turtles, and amphibians. William died in 2001.
His longtime friend and publisher, Bob Sehlinger, wrote: "When William Nealy died in 2001, paddling lost its Poet Laureate, one of its best teachers, and its greatest icon. William was arguably the best-known ambassador of whitewater sport, entertaining and instructing hundreds of thousands of paddlers through his illustrated books, including the classics: Whitewater Home Companion Volumes I and II, Whitewater Tales of Terror, Kayaks to Hell, and his best-known work, Kayak, which combined expert paddling instruction with artful caricatures and parodies of the whitewater community itself."
Content
River Trip
Survival Tips
Brace Debate
The Rivers
Appalachia
Chattahoochee, Atlanta
Cumberland, "Below the Falls"
Cumberland, "Big South Fork Gorge"
James River at Richmond
Maury River, Goshen Pass
New River Gorge, Revisited
New River, South Fork
Potomac River, Lower
Shenandoah River
Wilson Creek Gorge
Riverese Glossary
Survival Tips
Brace Debate
The Rivers
Appalachia
Chattahoochee, Atlanta
Cumberland, "Below the Falls"
Cumberland, "Big South Fork Gorge"
James River at Richmond
Maury River, Goshen Pass
New River Gorge, Revisited
New River, South Fork
Potomac River, Lower
Shenandoah River
Wilson Creek Gorge
Riverese Glossary