This is a story of an impossible love, and yet, it happened. Two very different beings with opposite backgrounds are drawn to each other. Who knows why? She, an Angel, working undercover in Hell, meets a Boatman who carries souls from one Life to the Next. They navigate uncertain waters of life as they know it. Then, they meet an alien, a computer hacker, who one day finds a weak link in Life's Database. He hacks in and changes a few things which causes the Boatman to miss several scheduled pickups of souls. When the Devil catches wind of the Hacker's abilities, both the Boatman and Hacker become wanted by the Devil's Own. Angel is crucial to their safety. As are Marcy and the Baby who become entwined in the lives of all involved.In the face of Death, anything is possible...read The Angel and The Boatman, an unusual love story, there is nothing like it.

When an alien hacks into God's Database (the Akashic Records), he gets the figure of Death into trouble with Upper Celestial Management. Soon both he and the Boatman are on the run from the Devil's Own who are also tracking them. An undercover angel working on assignment in Hell helps them escape while blowing her cover.Follow this light story of a dark subject to its unusual conclusion. One thing you can count on: You've never read anything like it.Ever been curious about the "other side" of life? This novella is a fun read with some thought-provoking ideas to ponder.

As a backyard naturalist and river enthusiast, Henry David Thoreau was keenly aware of the many ways in which humans had altered the waterways and meadows of his beloved Concord River Valley. A land surveyor by trade, he recognized that he was as complicit in these transformations as the bankers, builders, and elected officials who were his clients. The Boatman reveals the depth of his knowledge about the river as it elegantly chronicles his move from anger to lament to acceptance of how humans had changed a place he cherished even more than Walden Pond. “A scrupulous account of the environment Thoreau loved most... Thorson argues convincingly—sometimes beautifully—that Thoreau’s thinking and writing were integrally connected to paddling and sailing.” —Wall Street Journal “An in-depth account of Thoreau’s lifelong love of boats, his skill as a navigator, his intimate knowledge of the waterways around Concord, and his extensive survey of the Concord River.” —Robert Pogue Harrison, New York Review of Books “An impressive feat of empirical research...an important contribution to the scholarship on Thoreau as natural scientist.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “The Boatman presents a whole new Thoreau—the river rat. This is not just groundbreaking, but fun.” —David Gessner, author of All the Wild That Remains

This translation by Tom Simone provides a text that is close to Dante’s meter and style as is possible using modern English. In such a way a student gets a feel for the structure and impact of the original, and it could also provide an easy segue to the original Italian. Simone provides an extensive introduction, ample footnotes for references that may not be clear to the reader, and each Canto provides a prose overview of the poetry to follow, all designed to provide the modern student with access to this important work.