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Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History book cover by Paul Schneider
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Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History

by Paul Schneider

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Paperback · 416 pages Picador · 2014

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Old Man River

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.



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Publisher
Picador
Author
Paul Schneider
Format
Paperback
Published
Oct 28, 2014
ISBN-13
9781250053107
ISBN-10
1250053102
Pages
416
Carton quantity
18 copies
Printing
Printed on demand
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