During his year-long journey along North Dakota\u27s Sheyenne River, Robert King travels not merely for pleasure or personal fulfillment but to share local truth true in general, in the process discovering how North Dakota\u27s Nowhere becomes Everywhere. The book\u27s title and controlling metaphor come from Heraclitus, who insisted that one cannot step into the same river twice. King, however, seeks to do just that, claiming that he intends to step into the same river as did French geograpJoseph Nicollet, who crossed the Sheyenne in the 1830s while mapping the Mississippi waterway
