{"product_id":"voyage-of-the-adventure-retracing-the-donelson-partys-journey-to-the-founding-of-nashville-paperback","title":"Voyage of the Adventure: Retracing the Donelson Party's Journey to the Founding of Nashville - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Guider\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJeff Sellers\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eAlbert Bender\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the harsh winter of 1779, as the leader of a flotilla of settlers, John Donelson loaded his family and thirty slaves into a forty-foot flatboat at the present site of Kingsport, Tennessee. Their journey into the wilderness led to the founding of a settlement now known as Nashville--over one thousand river miles away. In the fall of 2016, photographer John Guider retraced the Donelson party's journey in his hand-built 141\/2' motorless rowing sailboat while making a visual documentation of the river as it currently exists 240 years later. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This photo book contains more than 120 striking images from the course of the journey, allowing the reader to see how much has changed and how much has remained untouched in the two and a half centuries since Donelson first took to the water. Equally significant, the essays include long-ignored contemporary histories of both the Cherokee whom Donelson encountered and the slaves he brought with him, some of whom did not survive the journey. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Guider, a professional photographer, has created images of every point in the thousand-mile trip from a platform just a few feet above the waterline of three of Tennessee's most notable rivers.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Guider\u003c\/b\u003e is an Emmy Award-winning photographer and author. The Nashville Public Television documentary \u003ci\u003eVoyage of Adventure\u003c\/i\u003e was honored by the National Academy of Television Arts \u0026amp; Sciences in 2020. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeff Sellers\u003c\/b\u003e is director of education and community engagement at the Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLearotha Williams Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of African American, Civil War and Reconstruction, and Public History at Tennessee State University and coordinator of the North Nashville Heritage Project. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlbert Bender\u003c\/b\u003e is a Cherokee activist, historian, political columnist, and reporter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarroll Van West\u003c\/b\u003e is director of the Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 182\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.4 x 10.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52148346028263,"sku":"9780826502520","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8329\/8279\/files\/70d0e0d514c98775ed62b5952c542f10.webp?v=1780383772","url":"https:\/\/skinnonsmooth.myshopify.com\/products\/voyage-of-the-adventure-retracing-the-donelson-partys-journey-to-the-founding-of-nashville-paperback","provider":"SkinnOnSmooth","version":"1.0","type":"link"}