This book contains everything: Adventure, mystery, travelogue, and unforgettable characters. Ben McGrath’s first book elegantly relates the true story of Dick Conant, a troubled and charismatic man who disappeared on a long-distance canoe trip from New York to Florida. Riverman “is a portrait of an America we rarely see: a nation of unconventional characters, small river
A man named Dick Conant, who keeps his distance from entanglements, paddles the rivers from Montana to the Atlantic. When his abandoned canoe turns up onshore, authorities start looking. In "Riverman," New Yorker writer Ben McGrath mixes reporting and reflection.