Snowshoeing Through Sewers: Adventures in New York City, New Jersey, and Philadelphia

by Michael Aaron Rockland

Book Overview

When Daniel Boone heard a neighbor's dog bark, he moved West. But when there's no Wild West left, where is adventure to be found? Michael Aaron Rockland looks for adventure in the megalopolis, "not where no one has been but where no one wishes to go . . . across traffic-clogged cities, the parking lots of wall-to-wall suburban malls, and the sinister waterways that seep through rusting industrial sites." In these ten alternately poetic and comic tales...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813521157
• ISBN13: 9780813521152
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Great Book... Great Urban Adventures

I was assigned this book back in 1998 when I took Prof Rockland's Urban Adventure course at Rutgers University one summer. I always got very nervous when the professor assigned a book that (s)he wrote. Was I pleasantly surprised! I was inspired, I was in awe of the adventures. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to get insprired to take an urban adventure - just walk out your door, and explore your hometown, see what you discover!

Entertaining tales of urban adventures

I gotta give the author some credit for participating in activities than millions of Americans do every day - canoeing, biking, hiking, etc. However, very, very few Americans do this along overdeveloped NJ highways or in urban drainage ditches that were once bucolic streams, so I give Mr. Rockland many bonus points for originality.Rockland has a sharp, entertaining writing style that held my interest throught this book, and this collection of stories was a great complement to Looking for America on the NJ Turnpike, his first work.