Description
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.Author: Paul Schneider
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 10/28/2014
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.80w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781250053107
ISBN10: 1250053102
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | United States | General
- History | United States | State & Local | Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO
About the Author
Paul Schneider is the acclaimed author of Bonnie and Clyde; Brutal Journey; The Enduring Shore; and The Adirondacks, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book. He and his family live in West Tisbury, Massachusetts.
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