Daylight Books publishes The River Will Be a Part of Us, a book by Justus Wayne Thomas.
In the Summer of 1981, an international assortment of young people gathered at a public park on the banks of the Missouri River just outside Kansas City. In ten days, they built a 16×24-foot raft from assorted lumber, a telephone pole and thirty-two 55-gallon oil drums. Propelled only by the river current and four 10-foot-long deck-mounted oars, in two months the crew of the “Eulenspiegel” floated 1,420 miles down the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans. This documentary monograph is the story of that walking-pace journey down the backbone of America.
Wayne Thomas has been making photographs since 1978. Now an attorney practicing in Nashville, his photographs have been exhibited in galleries across the country, including the SE Center for Photography, the A Smith Gallery and PhotoPlace Gallery.
Justus Wayne Thomas : The River Will Be a Part of Us
Published by Daylight Books
Essay by T.K. Smith, winner of the “Rabkin Prize” for art writing
ISBN: 9781954119352
Hardcover | 124 Pages | “6 x 9” | $50.00
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