Bibliograph

Up a creek, with a paddle, James W. Loewen, Tales of Canoeing and Life

Type

Label

Up a creek, with a paddle, James W. Loewen, Tales of Canoeing and Life

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Up a creek, with a paddle

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

James W. Loewen

Summary

Up a Creek, With a Paddle is an intimate and often humorous memoir by the author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen, who holds the distinction of being the best-selling living sociologist today. Rivers are good metaphors for life, and paddling for living. In this little book, Loewen skillfully makes these connections without sermonizing, resulting in nuggets of wisdom about how to live, how to act meaningfully, and perhaps how to die. Loewen also returns to his life's work and gently addresses the origins of racism and inequality, the theory of history, and the ties between the two. But mostly, as in his life, he finds rueful humor in every canoeing debacle-and he has had many!

Target audience

adult

Creator