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Accolades for Wherever Waters Flow

June 24, 2016

book-nav-175h“The text and photos look great!”

— Jimmy Carter, whitewater paddler, author, 39th President of the United States.

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“Wherever Waters Flow…is a flood-stage read with few eddies.”

— John Lane, author of Chattooga: Descending Into the Myth of Deliverance River

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“Doug has led an incredible life, filled with paddling, wilderness trips, conservation battles, and working with young people. In Wherever Waters Flow, he recounts his own story with great modesty and graciousness towards his companions.”

— Payson Kennedy, founder of Nantahala Outdoor Center, technical advisor and stunt man for Deliverance

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“Doug is responsible for many people seeing rivers as paths to adventure, as our forefathers did. To each of these people, Wherever Waters Flow is record and proof, a capsule of ‘a time that will not come again.'”

— Claude Terry, founder of Southeastern Expeditions, technical advisor and stunt man for Deliverance

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“Doug Woodward helped me understand a central part of my father’s novel, Deliverance — the river itself. Wherever Waters Flow is a wild rush of experiences around the world, but also a thoughtful, intimate look at the environment, its future and ours.”

— Christopher Dickey, author of Summer of Deliverance, Newsweek’s Bureau Chief in Paris.

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Events

Nov 9, 2019: Paddler’s Night at the Museum

Slideshow by Doug about paddling in the ’60s and ’70s, with special features on Deliverance, Jimmy Carter, Payson and Aurelia Kennedy, and the short documentary The Important Places.

Recent Published Articles

Jimmy Carter & Claude Terry on the first open canoe run of Bull Sluice rapid, Section III of the Chattooga River, August 1972. Photo by Doug Woodward

A remembrance of Jimmy Carter, on Blue Ridge Public Radio

Doug interviewed on public radio about Carter’s time paddling A remembrance of Jimmy Carter and his time on the Chattooga river, audio and written interview by Lilly Knoepp. Note that the written story from 2024, copied below, and the interview from 2019 contain slightly different content, both are interesting. President Jimmy Carter died Sunday at […]

The Deliverance film crew gets ready to capture stunt work on Five Falls, a rapid on the Chattooga River. Photo by Doug Woodward

Revisiting Deliverance, Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine article

Article by Doug Woodward written for the September 2022 issue of Blue Ridge Outdoors Revisiting Deliverance, and the Real-life Canoe Trip that Spawned the Famous Story Fifty years ago, a film appeared on the big screen which caused audiences to squirm with angst, due to a terrifying sequence of terrifying events in the backwoods of […]

cover of American Whitewater magazine, Sept/Oct 2019

The Whitewater Legacy of Jimmy Carter, in American Whitewater

For those of us whose spirits would wither away without wild country in which to renew ourselves, Jimmy Carter’s greatest legacy is to be found in the rivers that remain free-flowing and the great swaths of protected Alaska land that allow the caribou and grizzly to roam…

Born to Paddle article with 8-year old Canyon at the raft oars

Born to Paddle

Several families relate the joys of connecting to Nature via paddling. Canyon and Forest Woodward’s earliest days of paddling are recounted…

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Recent Musings

raft overturning in Chattooga River, dumping Jimmy Carter and all passengers

Remembering Rosalynn Carter, on the Chattooga

The Important Places

The cover of an NRS catalog

The Deliverance Question

… More Musings…

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