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Old Man River
Autor: Paul Schneider
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...
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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.
- Vydavateľstvo: St. Martins Press-3PL
- Rok vydania: 2014
- Formát: Paperback
- Rozmer: 210 x 140 mm
- Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
- ISBN: 9781250053107
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