HomeGroupsTalkMoreZeitgeist
This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms.

Results from Google Books

Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.

Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi…
Loading...

Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi (Vintage Departures) (original 1981; edition 2011)

by Jonathan Raban (Author)

MembersReviewsPopularityAverage ratingMentions
5681144,128 (3.95)30
Sports & Recreations. Travel. Nonfiction. HTML:The author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a spartan sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another masterpiece of contemporary American travel writing.  In the course of his voyage, Raban records the mercurial caprices of the river and the astonishingly varied lives of the people who live along its banks.  Whether he is fishing for walleye or hunting coon, discussing theology in Prairie Du Chien or race relations in Memphis, he is an expert observer of the heartyland's estrangement from America's capitals ot power and culture, and its helpless nostalgia for its lost past.  Witty, elegaic, and magnificently erudite, Old Glory is as filled with strong currents as the Mississippi itself.… (more)

Current Discussions

None

Popular covers

Quick Links

Amazon.com (direct)
Abebooks.com
Amazon Kindle (0 editions)
Audible (0 editions)
CD Audiobook (0 editions)
Project Gutenberg (0 editions)
Google Books — Loading...
ERROR: Name Missing

Genres

Melvil Decimal System (DDC)

917.7History and Geography › Geography and Travel › Geography of and travel in North America › Midwestern U.S.

LC Classification

F355.R3Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America › United States local history

Rating

Average: (3.95)
0.5
1
1.5 1
2 1
2.5
3 16
3.5 4
4 32
4.5 2
5 18

Is this you?

Become a LibraryThing Author.

 

About | Contact | Privacy/Terms | Help/FAQs | Blog | Store | APIs | TinyCat | Legacy Libraries | Early Reviewers | Common Knowledge | 212,655,732 books! | Top bar: Always visible
Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc.