Journey to "the right side of the river" with author and waterman Roger Pinckney to Daufuskie Island, one of the last of the undeveloped sea islands off the South Carolina/ Georgia Coast. Lying southwest of Hilton Head Island on Calibogue Sound, the island is approached only by boat and is home to islanders whose fiercely independent life styles and temperaments are products of a physical environment and spiritual culture of rare dimensions. In this debut collection of essays, Pinckney masterfully captures the cadence of life on the once pristine island that is still home to the Gullah people, descendants of former slaves. Islanders refer to the rest of North America as "The Other Side" and don't especially like to go there. Pinckney's poignant and occasionally raucous tales are filled with the wonder, rage and romance of a man on a personal mission to save an island and its people.

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Experts from The Right Side of the River
There are special times and special places and sometimes they come together in special ways, like God himself was doing the arranging, pulling light and weaving air and moving earth and sky and sea just to make you weep from wonder.
Like when the tide rises to brimming full and the moon comes up over Grenadier Shoals and the wind drops of to a whisper and the sea flattens and you can hear the gong-gong of the bell buoys way out in the mouth of Port Royal Sound. Or when you're hard aground in a little side creek and you wait and wait on the tide to turn you loose and all at once the barnacles pop and the marsh hens crackle and you see the water swap directions and your soul sings and your blood swaps directions, too...
I will tell you as much as I can in the time that I have. How I was born to this river, this mon, this porpoise and this lonesome bird, this sucking ebbtide beneath me, this evening like the ones that come to you in dreams. I can tell you about growing up here in glory of sand and wind and rolling surf. And about running away after I knew pulling up survey stakes would not stop what was going to happen. But that hurts too much, so I will not tell you about that, nor of the women I loved but cut loose, nor of the thirty years it took me to get back to where I started...
I got struck by lightning, fell overboard, swam with sharks and gators. I was lacerated, burned, swamped, marooned and cast ashore, a hundred times scared-to-Jesus death and shot at but never hit.
The river did not take my life, but the shimmering blue floodtide took my heart. The gurgling green suck in the low water creeks took my soul. If that were not enough, there was the glint of dawn upon the antlers of the rag-horned hummock bucks, the marsh hens cackling the tide change, the glory across the high marsh when the sun slips off toward Savannah.
The river took my heart and my soul but not my breath and I want to tell you all of it...

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