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Author: Mark Knudsen
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 1999-02-27
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1418558923
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mark Knudsen is an adventurer who built an eighteen-foot flat-bottom johnboat and motored down the Mississippi River from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico and lived the dream of many people.
Author: Paul Schneider
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2013-09-03
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0805098364
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fascinating account of how the Mississippi River shaped America In Old Man River, Paul Schneider tells the story of the river at the center of America's rich history—the Mississippi. Some fifteen thousand years ago, the majestic river provided Paleolithic humans with the routes by which early man began to explore the continent's interior. Since then, the river has been the site of historical significance, from the arrival of Spanish and French explorers in the 16th century to the Civil War. George Washington fought his first battle near the river, and Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman both came to President Lincoln's attention after their spectacular victories on the lower Mississippi. In the 19th century, home-grown folk heroes such as Daniel Boone and the half-alligator, half-horse, Mike Fink, were creatures of the river. Mark Twain and Herman Melville led their characters down its stream in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Confidence-Man. A conduit of real-life American prowess, the Mississippi is also a river of stories and myth. Schneider traces the history of the Mississippi from its origins in the deep geologic past to the present. Though the busiest waterway on the planet today, the Mississippi remains a paradox—a devastated product of American ingenuity, and a magnificent natural wonder.
Author: Bob Burke
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781885596246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lydia B. Miller
Publisher: Balboa Press
Published: 2018-12-28
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 1982219084
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“He didn’t know it at the time, but from the first day his mama knew he existed in her womb, there had been a target on his back, and home would never be a safe haven for him.” Like That Old Man River is a heartfelt saga set in the Mississippi Delta in 1924 and centers around two families—one living in a small rural colored community known as Cainstown and the other a prosperous family living in the lap of luxury in the all-white sundown town of McAllister. Set against a historical backdrop of Jim Crow South, this emotional journey chronicles the life of a mulatto boy named River born as the result of a brutal rape to a psychopathic mother. Go along for the ride on this epic journey spanning forty-five years that chronicles River’s struggle not only to survive, but to rise above the circumstances of his life. You will find yourself rooting for him through the many plot twists and turns and will not be able to rest until you find out how the story ends. One thing is for sure—he, as well as other colorful characters described in this book, will stay with you long after you have read the last page.
Author: Paul Schneider
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-09-03
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 080509136X
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Author: Todd R. Decker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0199389187
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Who should sing Ol' man river? : the lives of an American song tells the almost eighty-year performance history of a great popular song. Examining over two hundred recorded and filmed versions of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's classic song, the book reveals the power of performers to remake one popular song into many different guises"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-08-01
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Billy Bryant
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2018-12-01
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1789125030
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →RECOLLECTIONS OF A FAMILY WHO LIVED THEIR LIVES AS SHOWBOAT ENTERTAINERS ON AMERICAN RIVERS. Children of the Ol’ Man River, which was first published in 1936, tells the colorful and witty life story of the Bryants, a poor family who found fortune aboard the Mississippi steamboat they built and performed on at the beginning of this century. In addition to chronicling his own family’s history, Bryant provides an excellent introduction to the importance and history of river travel and entertainment on the most famous of American rivers. For many years, colorful showboats traveled the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and their tributaries, bringing entertainment to eager audiences in communities large and small. Huntington was a regular stop for the showboats, which made their arrival known by the musical strains of a powerful steam calliope, audible for miles around. Hearing the music, people would make a beeline for the 10th Street river landing to have a look at the boat and see what time the show would start. Some of the boats were lavish floating palaces, while others were far from grand. Some traveled only for a summer season or two, others for years. Billy Bryant’s Showboat plied the inland waterways of the Ohio River watershed from before the First World War until 1942, bringing a blend of melodrama and vaudeville, laughter and therapeutic tears, into the lives of isolated people in rural communities along the way.
Author: Dean Klinkenberg
Publisher: Dean Klinkenberg
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780971690448
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