Old Glory: An American Voyage
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0671250612
ISBN 13
9780671250614
Category
NON FICTION
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Publication Year
1981
Publisher
Pages
409
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Description
Jonathan Raban is an English author who fell in love with the Mississippi River when he was a boy (he was reading HUCKLEBERRY FINN). Over the years he dreamed about drifting its length. In 1979, he flew to Minneapolis, bought a 16 foot outboard launch, and set off for New Orleans. He takes us with him every step of the way. "The book and the journey would be all of a piece," Raban writes, "The plot would be written by the current of the river itself. It would carry one into long deep pools of solitude...Everything would be left to chance. There would be no advance reservations, no letters of introduction. One would try to be as much like a piece of driftwood as one could manage." - from Amzon
Number of Copies
2
