Life on the Mississippi : an epic American adventure
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Published
New York : Avid Reader Press, 2022.
Physical Desc
397 pages
Status
Oceano Library - Adult Nonfiction - Adult Non-Fiction
917.704
1 available
917.704
1 available
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction | 917.704 | Checked Out | April 18, 2024 |
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Nonfiction | 917.704 | Checked Out | April 6, 2024 |
Oceano Library - Adult Nonfiction - Adult Non-Fiction | 917.704 | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Avid Reader Press, 2022.
Format
Book
Language
English
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Includes index.
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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.
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