River : A Hudson Memoir

Name: River : A Hudson Memoir
Brand: Cornell University Press

Cornell University Press

RiverA Hudson Memoir\nAuthor(s): Leslie Day, Ed Bacon\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Three Hills\nISBN-13: 9781501783883, 978-1501783883\nSynopsis\nLeslie Day's life changed forever when, in 1975, she moved to a tiny houseboat on the Hudson River at the 79th Street Boat Basin a new home umbilically tied to Manhattan's Upper West Side. In her heartfelt memoir, River, Day reveals how she fell in love with and married her neighbor, a biology professor at Brooklyn College, became a naturalist, educator, and author, and raised her son on the boat. As Day invites readers into the intimate and connective stories of the singular floating community on the river, the histories and the people of the Hudson flow along with the tides and currents of Day's life. \n\nThere are stories of those who polluted the river and of those who fought for it to be clean and safestories of how Day became a student and teacher of the river and of the plants an.