Release Party – Water Lines: A Life on Marshes, Rivers, Seas and in the Rain
June 23 @ 6:30 am - 8:00 pm
On June 23rd at 6:30 p.m., Patagonia Portland (1106 W Burnside Ave) will celebrate the release of Water Lines: A Life on Marshes, Rivers, Seas and in the Rain with author Riverhorse Nakadate, a lifelong fly angler, adventurer, surfer, musician and environmentalist. Guests will also enjoy a screening of his short film Reindeer Journals, an ode to wilderness and living simply. This event is free and open to the public. Details / RSVP here.
About Water Lines
A luminous, deeply felt collection of essays from Riverhorse Nakadate, whose devotion to wild places and the healing power of water pulses through every page. Across 32 essays, Nakadate paddles, hikes, casts, surfs, and canoes through landscapes as varied as the alpine lakes of Colorado, the Oregon coast, the salt marshes of his native Texas, the trout streams of Minnesota, Lapland in the Arctic Circle, Africa, and the mangrove swamps of the Yucatán. Whether he’s chasing redfish in a hurricane, rescuing baby squirrels and migrating monarch butterflies, or honoring his mother’s legacy with a canoe ride and a slice of sweet-potato pie, Nakadate writes with poetic precision and a fierce, tender reverence for the natural world and his fellow human travelers. For readers of Edward Abbey, Barry Lopez, Mary Oliver, and Jim Harrison, this book is a soulful invitation to step off the grid and into the current.
A luminous, deeply felt collection of essays from Riverhorse Nakadate, whose devotion to wild places and the healing power of water pulses through every page. Across 32 essays, Nakadate paddles, hikes, casts, surfs, and canoes through landscapes as varied as the alpine lakes of Colorado, the Oregon coast, the salt marshes of his native Texas, the trout streams of Minnesota, Lapland in the Arctic Circle, Africa, and the mangrove swamps of the Yucatán. Whether he’s chasing redfish in a hurricane, rescuing baby squirrels and migrating monarch butterflies, or honoring his mother’s legacy with a canoe ride and a slice of sweet-potato pie, Nakadate writes with poetic precision and a fierce, tender reverence for the natural world and his fellow human travelers. For readers of Edward Abbey, Barry Lopez, Mary Oliver, and Jim Harrison, this book is a soulful invitation to step off the grid and into the current.
A press release is posted here.