Whitewater Home Companion: Southeastern Rivers, Volume 1

By William Nealy

Laugh out loud with this hilarious collection of William Nealy’s beloved river maps, together in book form for easy reading!

A celebrated author and cartoonist, William Nealy gained cult-hero status in the outdoor-sports community by blending his passion for the outdoors with his unique style of caricatures. He had a knack for learning—not by doing but by crashing and burning! For years his informative and hilarious cartoon maps of popular canoeing and kayaking streams have delighted whitewater paddlers. Practically collectors’ items, these maps are sought by paddlers all over the United States for their relevance and wild insider’s perspective.

In Whitewater Home Companion: Southeastern Rivers, Volume I, William coupled his most celebrated Southeastern US river maps with an anthology of cartoons, paddling homilies, and unsolicited advice. Artistically bizarre, totally irreverent, and laced with lethal doses of macho-deflating, highly barbed wit, this masterpiece helped establish William as the Kliban of outdoor literature. Through his distinctive drawing and wholly peculiar river-submarine terminology, William successfully portrays rivers and boaters as never before.

Featured Rivers:

• Chattahoochee
• Chattooga, Sections III & IV
• Cheat Canyon
• French Broad/Big Laurel Creek
• Gauley
• Haw
• Hiwassee
• Locust Fork of the Warrior River
• Nantahala
• New River Gorge
• Nolichucky
• Ocoee
• Savage
• Youghiogheny

William’s zany illustrations have been bound and bandaged together in a monumental new collection of books that include cartoons long out of print. Whitewater Home Companion is a wonderful part of The William Nealy Collection, ideal for anyone who loves to laugh and enjoys the great outdoors.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
• Release date: May 23, 2023
• ISBN: 9781634043779

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