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Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure by Buck, Rinker
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- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9781501106378
- Book Title
- Life on the Mississippi : an Epic American Adventure
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Travel, Sports & Recreation, History
- Topic
- Boating, United States / State & Local / General, Essays & Travelogues, Expeditions & Discoveries, United States / General
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Item Weight
- 24.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Audacious... Life on the Mississippi sparkles." -- The Wall Street Journal * "A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch * "Both a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about America's westward expansion." -- The Christian Science Monitor The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker Buck, Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand "flatboat era" of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River, illuminating the forgotten past of America's first western frontier. Seven years ago, readers around the country fell in love with a singular American voice: Rinker Buck, whose infectious curiosity about history launched him across the West in a covered wagon pulled by mules and propelled his book about the trip, The Oregon Trail , to ten weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, Buck returns to chronicle his latest incredible adventure: building a wooden flatboat from the bygone era of the early 1800s and journeying down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. A modern-day Huck Finn, Buck casts off down the river on the flatboat Patience accompanied by an eccentric crew of daring shipmates. Over the course of his voyage, Buck steers his fragile wooden craft through narrow channels dominated by massive cargo barges, rescues his first mate gone overboard, sails blindly through fog, breaks his ribs not once but twice, and camps every night on sandbars, remote islands, and steep levees. As he charts his own journey, he also delivers a richly satisfying work of history that brings to life a lost era. The role of the flatboat in our country's evolution is far more significant than most Americans realize. Between 1800 and 1840, millions of farmers, merchants, and teenage adventurers embarked from states like Pennsylvania and Virginia on flatboats headed beyond the Appalachians to Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Settler families repurposed the wood from their boats to build their first cabins in the wilderness; cargo boats were broken apart and sold to build the boomtowns along the water route. Joining the river traffic were floating brothels, called "gun boats"; "smithy boats" for blacksmiths; even "whiskey boats" for alcohol. In the present day, America's inland rivers are a superhighway dominated by leviathan barges--carrying $80 billion of cargo annually--all descended from flatboats like the ramshackle Patience . As a historian, Buck resurrects the era's adventurous spirit, but he also challenges familiar myths about American expansion, confronting the bloody truth behind settlers' push for land and wealth. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced more than 125,000 members of the Cherokee, Choctaw, and several other tribes to travel the Mississippi on a brutal journey en route to the barrens of Oklahoma. Simultaneously, almost a million enslaved African Americans were carried in flatboats and marched by foot 1,000 miles over the Appalachians to the cotton and cane fields of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, birthing the term "sold down the river." Buck portrays this watershed era of American expansion as it was really lived. With a rare narrative power that blends stirring adventure with absorbing untold history, Life on the Mississippi is a mus-cular and majestic feat of storytelling from a writer who may be the closest that we have today to Mark Twain.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1501106376
ISBN-13
9781501106378
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5057277420
Product Key Features
Book Title
Life on the Mississippi : an Epic American Adventure
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Boating, United States / State & Local / General, Essays & Travelogues, Expeditions & Discoveries, United States / General
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Travel, Sports & Recreation, History
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
24.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
F351.B918 2022
Reviews
"Buck's ability to deftly balance the intimate and the epic, along with his pervading charm and literary panache, make Life on the Mississippi an entertaining and engrossing read. . . . The book's most poignant aspect is achieved thanks to the author's ability to sketch brief, affecting portraits of the people with whom his voyage brings him into contact." --Shelf Awareness, PRAISE FOR THE OREGON TRAIL : "An incredible true story . . . Weaving a tale somewhere between a travelogue and a history lesson, Buck traces the iconic path literally and figuratively as he re-creates the great migration with his brother and a Jack Russell terrier." -- Entertainment Weekly "Excellent . . . An amazing cross-country journey . . . Rinker and Nick Buck's conquest of the trail, the achievement of a lifetime, makes for a real nonfiction thriller, an account that keeps you turning the pages because you can't conceive how the protagonists will make it through the enormous real-life obstacles confronting them." --Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books "Enchanting . . . Interspersed with the story of his westward journey, Mr. Buck entertains and enlightens with discourses on American history and culture. . . . He has delivered us a book filled with so much love--for mules, for his brother, for America itself. . . . Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon." --Gregory Crouch, The Wall Street Journal "Absorbing . . . The many layers in The Oregon Trail are linked by Mr. Buck's voice, which is alert and unpretentious in a manner that put me in mind of Bill Bryson's comic tone in A Walk in the Woods . . . . He's good company on the page, and you root for him. . . . He's particularly winning on how, as he puts it, 'the vaudeville of American life was acted out on the trail.' . . . This shaggy pilgrimage describes a form of happiness sought, and happiness found." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Awe-inspiring . . . Charming, big-hearted, impassioned, and a lot of fun to read . . . If Buck doesn't quite make you want to hitch up your own wagon, his rapturous account will still leave you daydreaming and hungry to see this land." -- The Boston Globe "A remarkable saga . . . Thanks to Buck's utterly engaging voice, infectious enthusiasm, unquenchable curiosity, dogged determination and especially his ability to convey the interaction of two brothers (and three mules), all of whom pull together despite their strong but profoundly different personalities, the saga becomes nothing short of irresistible. . . . This tale of brotherhood, persistence and daring so snares the emotions that it becomes a tear-jerker at its close." --Rosemary Herbert, Minneapolis Star Tribune "A laugh-out-loud masterpiece . . . Alternately harrowing and exhilarating . . . The book is an unremitting delight." -- Willamette Week
Lccn
2023-289027
Dewey Decimal
977
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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