It doesn't have spectacular geology as other rivers might have. It doesn't have valleys. It flows through a swamp for a portion of its existence. A Journey on Florida's St. Johns River. In its journey to the Atlantic, the water in the river follows a valley that drops about an inch a mile.
People think of it as a dark, foreboding, snake infested area.
It took him two years to write the book, which has received a number of positive reviews from national publications. Belleville used bits and pieces of personal experience in writing the book. I had been collecting information over a period of years. I had been kayaking on the river. The book begins in the headwaters of the St. Johns in central Florida, and ends it where the St. Johns flows past Jacksonville to the Atlantic Ocean.