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Around the Bend: Floating Down the Missouri River
The Missouri River is one of the most dangerous rivers in the United States--and one of the...
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The Missouri River is one of the most dangerous rivers in the United States--and one of the most economically important. Even as prolonged drought in the Midwest has imperiled urban drinking water and agricultural water supplies, parched regions in the basin far from the river have proposed piping water from the Missouri to alleviate their own water shortages.
In an attempt to better understand the river and its place in the American imagination, Lisa G. Dill set out with four of her mother's cousins on a forty-year-old pontoon boat on a modern voyage of discovery. The hope was to sail nearly 750 river miles from Sioux City, Iowa, to St. Louis, Missouri, a goal whose success was by no means assured, given the rickety state of the family vessel. From departure--a day late, because the motor wouldn't start--until she got off the boat, Dill bears witness to the river, its flora and fauna, the efforts to control it, and its history, along with the misadventures of a crew of "relative strangers" and the boat's tenuous viability on one of the world's most powerful rivers.
In Around the Bend Dill teases out the cultural and environmental history of the Missouri and urges readers to change the way they think about America's rivers and the landscapes through which they flow.
Author: Lisa G. Dill
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 04/01/2026
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781496237316
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2026 pg. 70
About the Author
Lisa G. Dill is an adjunct professor of creative and environmental writing at the University of Delaware.
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