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Old Man River, Paul Schneider’s exploration of America’s great waterway―taking the reader from the Mississippi River’s origins to its polluted present and tracing its prehistory, geology, and cultural and literary histories―is as vast as its subject.
The fascinating cast of characters includes the French and Spanish explorers de Soto, Marquette and Joliet, and the incomparable La Salle; George Washington fighting his first battle in an effort to secure the watershed; the birth of jazz and blues; and literary greats like Melville, Dickens, Trollope, and, of course, Mark Twain.
Pirates and riverbats, gamblers and slaves, hustlers and landscape painters, loggers and catfishers, tourists and missionaries: The Mississippi is a river of stories and myth. It’s Paul Robeson sitting on a cotton bale, Daniel Boone floating on a flatboat, and Paul Bunyan cutting trees in the neighborhood of Little House in the Big Woods.
Half-devastated product of American ingenuity, half-magnificent natural wonder, it is impossible to imagine America without the Mississippi.
Publisher : Picador (October 28, 2014)
Language : English
Paperback : 416 pages
ISBN-10 : 1250053102
ISBN-13 : 978-1250053107
Item Weight : 12.8 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.93 x 8.25 inches
Customers say
Customers find the history well-told and excellent. They also say the book provides new knowledge on every page and is well-researched. Readers describe the writing quality as well-written, easy to read, and readable. Opinions are mixed on readability, with some finding it entertaining and others disappointed.
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