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A review by holly_johnson
The River of Kings by Taylor Brown
4.0
I received this book as a giveaway through Goodreads, and a review was requested as part of the giveaway.
Three stories are told here. Hunter and his older brother Lawton are on a mission to kayak down the Altamaha River and deposit their late father's ashes. Observations of the primeval untouched parts of the river are interspersed with the trash of human habitation and the brothers' too tightly wrapped testosterone fueled interactions with each other and the people they meet. Their father Hiram's story from the 70's informs the modern day story and increases the reader's curiosity about how he actually died. In the third narrative, a French artist on the initial foray into New France in the 1500's commits the wonders of the river to paper as he chronicles an ill-fated expedition to the area.
A very readable book with lots of interesting characters, nature itself being one of them.
Three stories are told here. Hunter and his older brother Lawton are on a mission to kayak down the Altamaha River and deposit their late father's ashes. Observations of the primeval untouched parts of the river are interspersed with the trash of human habitation and the brothers' too tightly wrapped testosterone fueled interactions with each other and the people they meet. Their father Hiram's story from the 70's informs the modern day story and increases the reader's curiosity about how he actually died. In the third narrative, a French artist on the initial foray into New France in the 1500's commits the wonders of the river to paper as he chronicles an ill-fated expedition to the area.
A very readable book with lots of interesting characters, nature itself being one of them.