Name: Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History, Paperback/Paul Schneider
Brand: Picador USA
Price: 155.99 RON
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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. About author(s): 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.