2016
25 Keelson Dr, Rockport, ME 04856, United States
Hodding Carter at Camden Hills Regional High School
1984
103 College Rd, Gambier, OH 43022, United States
Hodding Carter attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he received a Bachelor's degree in English Literature in 1984.
2014
50 Union St, Saint John, NB E2L 1A1, Canada
Penobscot Bay YMCA Sailfish who attended the Maine Swimming International Invitational July 24-26 at the Canada Aquatic Games Center in St. John, New Brunswick include coach Hodding Carter, back, and, front from left, Angus Carter, Mark McCluskey, Tor Denny, Maddie Karod, Catherine Abaldo and Julian Abaldo.
1984
103 College Rd, Gambier, OH 43022, United States
Hodding Carter attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he received a Bachelor's degree in English Literature in 1984.
2014
50 Union St, Saint John, NB E2L 1A1, Canada
Penobscot Bay YMCA Sailfish who attended the Maine Swimming International Invitational July 24-26 at the Canada Aquatic Games Center in St. John, New Brunswick include coach Hodding Carter, back, and, front from left, Angus Carter, Mark McCluskey, Tor Denny, Maddie Karod, Catherine Abaldo and Julian Abaldo.
2018
Hodding Carter III pulling the bateau with fellow adventurer Brett Stewart in it.
The team, left to right, Rob Stevens, Ben Schott, Hodding Carter, John Abbott, and Wilder Nicholson, prepares to cross the St. Lawrence River and “attack” Quebec. Courtesy Hodding Carter
(Presents an account of the exploits of two modern-day adv...)
Presents an account of the exploits of two modern-day adventurers, who set out via raft, foot, horseback, and rental car to recreate the Lewis and Clark expedition.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067179891X/?tag=2022091-20
1994
(This extraordinary book is the account of how he pulled i...)
This extraordinary book is the account of how he pulled it off. By turns thrilling and slapstick, sublime and outrageous, A Viking Voyage is an unforgettable adventure story that will take you to the heart of some of the most magnificent, unspoiled territory on earth, and even deeper, to the heart of a journey like no other.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345420047/?tag=2022091-20
2001
(When the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan went i...)
When the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan went into effect during the Clinton administration, Florida's great grassy wilderness garnered a host of national attention -- and has since become a breeding ground for environmental dispute. What does it take to "save" a forest? How can it be preserved?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743474074/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(Witty, anecdotal, and thoroughly entertaining, Flushed ch...)
Witty, anecdotal, and thoroughly entertaining, Flushed chronicles the long and notable history of plumbing, while following Hodding Carter's travels and travails around the most underappreciated pillar of civilization. It's a winning combination of history, science, and firsthand experience a book that will both entertain and educate those who have never contemplated the hidden intricacies of this miracle of everyday technology.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743474090/?tag=2022091-20
2006
(It's the exhilarating story of a man who rebels against m...)
It's the exhilarating story of a man who rebels against middle age the only way he can by chasing a dream.
https://www.amazon.com/Off-Deep-End-Probably-Olympics/dp/1565125649
2008
Hodding Carter was born in 1962, Greenville, Mississippi and has spent his entire adult life there. Carter is the son of the well-known official who served in President Jimmy Carter’s administration and the grandson of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
Hodding Carter attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he received a Bachelor's degree in English Literature in 1984 and was an All-American on Kenyon’s national-champion swim team.
Just months after graduating, Hodding served 2 and a half years as a US Peace Corps volunteer in western Kenya, teaching English and assisting with rural development. From 1980 he was in the national championship swim team “The Lords”. In 1989 and back in the States, Esquire magazine hired him as a fact-checker with one caveat: he could never write for the magazine. Quickly defying this rule, his first article, an examination of Mark Spitz’s midlife-crisis-driven, ill-fated Olympic comeback, appeared in Esquire less than nine months later. And he has been writing professionally ever since.
During 1996-1997 Hodding also hosted a television travel show “Off to Nowhere” on the Outdoor Life Network. He led celebrity guests on outdoor adventures around the world and, for better or worse, was one of the first TV hosts to use video-diary entries as a recurring device to reveal his guests “real” views.
He retraced the Lewis and Clark expedition by foot, horse, and boat and wrote his first book “Westward Whoa: In the Wake of Lewis and Clark’ in 1994. After Hodding and crew survived a number of close calls with polar bears, icebergs, frostbite, and even a sinking ship, Ballantine published his account “A Viking Voyage: In Which an Unlikely Crew of Adventurers Attempts an Epic Journey to the New World” of this misguided undertaking in 2000.
He wrote a book about the Everglades “Stolen Water” in 2004. His 2006 book on plumbing “Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization” was called “delightful” by the LA Times and “witty, entertaining and just plain fun to read” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. His most recent book “Off the Deep End” published in June 2008 by Algonquin, covered his attempt to qualify for the US Olympic swimming trials at the age of 45.
In 2016 Carter became the new boys and girls swim coach for Camden Hills Regional High School. Carter has coached the Penobscot Bay YMCA Sailfish for nine years and stepped away from that role because the year-round grind had become “too much.” He now lives in Camden, Maine, where he writes non-fiction and teaches swimming.
Hodding has won numerous writing awards and been published in periodicals such as Booklist, Canadian Geographic, Entertainment Weekly, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal and South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
The Lords won the Division III Swimming and Diving Championships in each of Carter’s four years — and 31 years in a row from 1980 to 2010 — an all-division record.
(When the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan went i...)
2004(Witty, anecdotal, and thoroughly entertaining, Flushed ch...)
2006(Presents an account of the exploits of two modern-day adv...)
1994(It's the exhilarating story of a man who rebels against m...)
2008(This extraordinary book is the account of how he pulled i...)
2001Carter and his wife, Lisa, have four children, all of whom currently are or have been in the past, accomplished swimmers. Twin sisters Anabel and Eliza, graduated from CHRHS in 2014 and Helen, in 2015. Anabel swims collegiately at Bates College in Lewiston and Helen at Colorado College. The Carters’ fourth child, Angus, swims for the Sailfish — as did all three of his sisters over the years.
