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From: Sunday News Lancaster, PA
Date: 20020602
Author:Jo-Ann Greene

The Misssissippi had Mark Twain. The Susquehanna had James Fenimore Cooper. And now it has Jack Brubaker.

While the 19th-century authors embedded river culture and lore in their fiction ("The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Deerslayer," respectively), Brubaker takes a nonfiction approach in his newly released "Down the Susquehanna to the Chesapeake."

The Manor Township resident and Lancaster New Era columnist offers an intimate view of life along the East Coast's largest river by layering geology on history on ecology on travelogue. He draws on years of driving, biking, hiking and ...

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