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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.
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.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2014 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Regionalgeschichte |
| Genre: | Geschichte |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 416 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781250053107 |
| ISBN-10: | 1250053102 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Schneider, Paul |
| Hersteller: | St. Martins Press-3PL |
| Maße: | 210 x 140 x 24 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Paul Schneider |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 28.10.2014 |
| Gewicht: | 0,568 kg |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2014 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Regionalgeschichte |
| Genre: | Geschichte |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 416 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781250053107 |
| ISBN-10: | 1250053102 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Schneider, Paul |
| Hersteller: | St. Martins Press-3PL |
| Maße: | 210 x 140 x 24 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Paul Schneider |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 28.10.2014 |
| Gewicht: | 0,568 kg |
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