Four Months in a Sneak-Box

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 1, 2023

In Category - Travel & Geography

Authors: Nathaniel H. Bishop In Year : 1879

Book Language: English

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Chapter I, THE BOAT FOR THE VOYAGE
Chapter II, SOURCES OF THE OHIO RIVER
Chapter III, FROM PITTSBURGH TO BLENNERHASSET'S ISLAND
Chapter IV, FROM BLENNERHASSET'S ISLAND TO CINCINNATI
Chapter V, FROM CINCINNATI TO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
Chapter VI, DESCENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
Chapter VII, DESCENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI TO NEW ORLEANS (Part 1)
Chapter VII, DESCENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI TO NEW ORLEANS (Part 2)
Chapter VIII, NEW ORLEANS
Chapter IX, ON THE GULF OF MEXICO
Chapter X, FROM BILOXI TO CAPE SAN BLAS
Chapter XI, FROM CAPE SAN BLAS TO ST. MARKS
Chapter XII, FROM ST. MARKS TO THE SUWANEE RIVER

The kind reception by the American press of the author's first journey to the great southern sea, and its republication in Great Britain and in France ... have encouraged him to give the public a companion volume, "FOUR MONTHS IN A SNEAK-BOX" ... a relation of ... a second cruise to the Gulf of Mexico ... by a different route from that followed in the "VOYAGE OF THE PAPER CANOE." This time the author procured one of the smallest and most comfortable of boats... the BARNEGAT SNEAK-BOX. This curious and stanch little craft, though only twelve feet in length, proved a most comfortable and serviceable home while the author rowed in it more than 2600 miles down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, until he reached the goal of his voyage — the mouth of the wild Suwanee River — which was the terminus of his "VOYAGE OF THE PAPER CANOE." - Summary by Nathaniel H. Bishop

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