Word: river
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...Alaskan wilderness on his own. His is a sort of belated hippie odyssey and most of his adventures are fairly typical of that no-longer novel experience. He finds honest work and an agreeable boss in the midwestern wheat fields; he paddles prettily and adventurously down the Colorado River; he joins an older, good-natured couple in a commune; he eventually comes across an older man, a retired soldier (Hal Holbrook in a lovely performance), who becomes the fully understanding surrogate father he has always sought. Eventually he attains the wilderness of his dreams, settles into an abandoned...
...Reading your stories about rivers, I was struck by how big a role rivers have played in Australian literature. Kate Grenville's The Secret River, on which Michael Fitzgerald based his visit to the Hawkesbury, is only the latest work to refer to rivers. Your editor's letter was right in suggesting that the dryness of so much of the continent gives rivers a special significance. Every Australian knows Banjo Paterson's The Man From Snowy River, but rivers also come up frequently in the poetry of Harry "Breaker" Morant. One of his best-known verses is At the River...
...very much enjoyed Elizabeth Keenan's account of the extraordinary Finke river race in central Australia, and the certifiably crazy people who take part in it. I was intrigued, however, by the geologists' reference to the Finke as the "oldest river on earth." I am no hydrographer, but I have always thought one of the defining qualities of a river is water. Given that the Finke is almost permanently empty, shouldn't it be known as the oldest groove on earth? Anthony Connell, Sydney...
Designed by Sir Norman Foster with sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and Arup engineers, the Millennium Bridge (5), which links pedestrians at the Tate Modern on the south side of the river to St. Paul's Cathedral on the north, is still known affectionately by Londoners as the "wobbly bridge," although its seasickness-inducing swing has been corrected...
Skylon restaurant (7), left, named for the (long-gone) towering sculpture, a symbol of 1951's festival, is located in the RFH and boasts spectacular river views and an interior design inspired by the RFH's history (44 20 7654 7800; skylonrestaurant.co.uk...