$14.49 sale price when purchased online
$26.00 list price
Target Online store #3991
About this item
Highlights
- 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.
- About the Author: Paul Schneider is the acclaimed author of Bonnie and Clyde; Brutal Journey; The Enduring Shore; and The Adirondacks, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book.
- 416 Pages
- Travel, United States
Description
About the Book
Originally published in hardback in 2013.Book Synopsis
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.Review Quotes
"[A] vivid history." --The New Yorker
"He's a fantastic writer." --Wes Craven, The Boston Globe "Stunning...With such an expert hand on the tiller, Old Man River is an astonishing journey." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "The territory Schneider studies is what some dismiss as 'flyover country, ' but what fascinating stories 'flyover country' has to tell!" --Booklist "Another chockablock, environmentally focused, ambitious volume from Schneider...A wild ride well worth taking." --Kirkus Reviews "Reminiscent of a Ken Burns documentary...this historical book becomes surprisingly moving and meditative." --The Cedar Rapids Gazette "Schneider's book stands out....It's another reminder of how we took the river's heritage for granted for far too long, and why it's worth scrambling today to reclaim and maintain as much of it as we can." --Minneapolis Star TribuneAbout the Author
Paul Schneider is the acclaimed author of Bonnie and Clyde; Brutal Journey; The Enduring Shore; and The Adirondacks, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book. He and his family live in West Tisbury, Massachusetts.Dimensions (Overall): 8.1 Inches (H) x 5.8 Inches (W) x 1.2 Inches (D)
Weight: .8 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 416
Genre: Travel
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: Picador USA
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Paul Schneider
Language: English
Street Date: October 28, 2014
TCIN: 90821340
UPC: 9781250053107
Item Number (DPCI): 247-47-7064
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
If the item details above aren’t accurate or complete, we want to know about it.
Shipping details
Estimated ship dimensions: 1.2 inches length x 5.8 inches width x 8.1 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.8 pounds
We regret that this item cannot be shipped to PO Boxes.
This item cannot be shipped to the following locations: American Samoa (see also separate entry under AS), Guam (see also separate entry under GU), Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico (see also separate entry under PR), United States Minor Outlying Islands, Virgin Islands, U.S., APO/FPO
Return details
This item can be returned to any Target store or Target.com.
This item must be returned within 90 days of the date it was purchased in store, shipped, delivered by a Shipt shopper, or made ready for pickup.
See the return policy for complete information.