Navigating the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans,
Jonathan Raban opens himself to experience the river in all her
turbulent and unpredictable old glory. Going wherever the current
takes him, he joins a coon-hunt in Savana, falls for a girl in St
Louis, worships with black Baptists in Memphis and hangs out with the
housewives of Pemiscot and the hog-king of Dubuque. Through tears of
laughter, we are led into the heartland of America – with its hunger
and hospitality, its inventive energy and its charming lethargy –
and come to know something of its soul.
But the journey is as much the story of Raban as it is of the
Mississippi. Navigating the dangerous, ever-changing waters in an
unsuitably fragile aluminium skiff, he immerses himself as he tries to
give shape to the river and the story – finding himself by turns
vulnerable, curious, angry and, like all of us, sometimes foolishly in
love.
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ISBN
9781780601458
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Eland Publishing
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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