Bøger af Patrick Dobson

Patrick Dobson is a writer, scholar, and poet. He is the author of two award-winning travel memoirs, Seldom Seen: A Journey into the Great Plains (2009) and Canoeing the Great Plains: A Missouri River Summer (May 2015). His first book of poetry, a brief infidelity and other reveries, was published by Spartan Press in 2017. He earned a doctorate in American History and American Literature in 2013 and teaches American History, Modern Latin American History, and Western Civilization at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, KS.

Tired of an unfulfilling life in Kansas City, Patrick Dobson left his job and set off on foot across the Great Plains. After two and a half months and 1,450 miles, Dobson arrived in Helena, Montana. He then set a canoe on the Missouri and asked the river to carry him safely back to Kansas City. In Canoeing the Great Plains, Dobson recounts his journey on the the US's longest river.

In May 1995, with nothing but a backpack and a vague sense of disquiet, Patrick Dobson left his home and a steady if deadening job in Kansas City, Missouri. Over the next two and a half months he made his way to Helena, Montana, letting chance encounters guide him to a deeper sense of who he was and where he was going.