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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.
| Autorius: | Paul Schneider |
| Leidėjas: | St. Martins Press-3PL |
| Išleidimo metai: | 2014 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 416 |
| ISBN-10: | 1250053102 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781250053107 |
| Formatas: | 210 x 140 x 24 mm. Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
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