About the Author

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Ernest Herndon is author of numerous books, including Canoeing Mississippi and Canoeing Louisiana, and coauthor with Scott B. Williams of Paddling the Pascagoula, all published by University Press of Mississippi. He is longtime Outdoors Editor for the McComb, Mississippi, Enterprise-Journal; has won dozens of journalism awards; and has been published in a number of magazines. Patrick Parker is a physiologist, naturalist, and travel and outdoor writer. His writing has been featured in US News & World Report, The Washington Times, and Tanzania Today, as well as local publications such as the Enterprise-Journal newspaper, Bluffs & Bayous Magazine, Pulse Magazine, and eat. drink. MISSISSIPPI.