Journey on the James: Three Weeks through the Heart of VirginiaFrom its beginnings as a trickle of icy water in Virginia's northwest corner to its miles wide mouth at Hampton Roads, the James River has witnessed more recorded history than any other feature of the American landscape as home to the continent's first successful English settlement, highway for Native Americans and early colonists, battleground in the Revolution and the Civil War, and birthplace of America's twentieth century navy. In 1998, restless