In his most ambitious journey ever, Heat-Moon sets off aboard a small boat he named Nikawa ("river horse" in Osage) from the Atlantic at New York Harbor in hopes of entering the Pacific near Astoria, Oregon. Brimming with history, drama, humor, and wisdom, River-Horse belongs in the pantheon of American travel literature. Along the route, he offers a lyrical and ceaselessly fascinating shipboard perspective on the country's rivers, lakes, canals, and landscapes.
Any thoughts of reconciliation is for another day.In River-Horse, the preeminent chronicler of American back roads-who has given us the classics Blue Highways and Prairyerth-recounts his singular voyage on American waters from sea to sea. He is delighted that Prince Harry is attending the Coronation. I am told that while the King is open to a reconciliation - or at least to open a discussion with Harry - other senior royals including Camilla and William are less inclined to be conciliatory.Ī source said: “His Majesty loves his sons equally. If Kate found it tricky then, before all the revelations and half truths, what is the state of play now? It was even before the Netflix docu- series and TV interviews in which he slammed the royal institution and his family. She privately admitted later to a senior royal that, such was the ill-feeling between the two couples, the joint walkabout after the Queen’s death was one of the hardest things that she has had to do.Īnd this was even before Harry published Spare, the autobiography that not only revealed family secrets but laid bare his resentment of his brother. William’s idea to put on a show of unity at Windsor for their late grandmother was a good one.
He welcomed Meghan into “the Firm” and pronounced himself captivated by her intelligence and vivacious personality.Īttempts to reunite the two couples, dubbed “the Fab Four”, failed.
The once close bond between the siblings was disintegrating.
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