Paddle into the past with a crew of five friends as they begin their 350-mile journey down the James River, finding misadventures and unexpected beauty from the headwaters to the Chesapeake Bay. Once the most polluted river in America, the James is a living monument to nature's resilience, humanity's capacity for change, and how the most profound answers await us in our backyard.
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