Isbn: 9781501106378 - life on the mississippi: an epic american adventure (25 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * ?Audacious?Life on the Mississippi sparkles.? ?The Wall Street Journal * ?A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection.? ?St. Louis Post-Dispatch * ?Both a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about America?s westward expansion.? ?The Christian Science Monitor The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker Buck, Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand ?flatboat era? of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River, illuminating the forgotten past of America?s first western frontier.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. The role of the flatboat in our country?s evolution is far more significant than most Americans realize. Between 1800 and 1840, millions of farmers, merchants, and teenage adventurers embarked from states like Pennsylvania and Virginia on flatboats headed beyond the Appalachians to Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Settler families repurposed the wood from their boats to build their first cabins in the wilderness; cargo boats were broken apart and sold to build the boomtowns along the water route. Joining the river traffic were floating brothels, called ?gun boats?; ?smithy boats? for blacksmiths; even ?whiskey boats? for alcohol. In the present day, America?s inland rivers are a superhighway dominated by leviathan barges?carrying $80 billion of cargo annually?all descended from flatboats like the ramshackle Patience. As a historian, Buck resurrects the era?s adventurous spirit, but he also challenges familiar myths about American expansion, confronting the bloody truth behind settlers? push for land and wealth. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced more than 125,000 members of the Cherokee, Choctaw, and several other tribes to travel the Mississippi on a brutal journey en route to the barrens of Oklahoma. Simultaneously, almost a million enslaved African Americans were carried in flatboats and marched by foot 1,000 miles over the Appalachians to the cotton and cane fields of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, birthing the term ?sold down the river.? Buck portrays this watershed era of American expansion as it was really lived. With a rare narrative power that blends stirring adventure with absorbing untold history, Life on the Mississippi is a mus­cular and majestic feat of storytelling from a writer who may be the closest that we have today to Mark Twain.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * ?Audacious?Life on the Mississippi sparkles.? ?The Wall Street Journal * ?A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection.? ?St. Louis Post-Dispatch * ?Both a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about America?s westward expansion.? ?The Christian Science Monitor The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker Buck, Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand ?flatboat era? of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River, illuminating the forgotten past of America?s first western frontier.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. The role of the flatboat in our country?s evolution is far more significant than most Americans realize. Between 1800 and 1840, millions of farmers, merchants, and teenage adventurers embarked from states like Pennsylvania and Virginia on flatboats headed beyond the Appalachians to Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Settler families repurposed the wood from their boats to build their first cabins in the wilderness; cargo boats were broken apart and sold to build the boomtowns along the water route. Joining the river traffic were floating brothels, called ?gun boats?; ?smithy boats? for blacksmiths; even ?whiskey boats? for alcohol. In the present day, America?s inland rivers are a superhighway dominated by leviathan barges?carrying $80 billion of cargo annually?all descended from flatboats like the ramshackle Patience. As a historian, Buck resurrects the era?s adventurous spirit, but he also challenges familiar myths about American expansion, confronting the bloody truth behind settlers? push for land and wealth. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced more than 125,000 members of the Cherokee, Choctaw, and several other tribes to travel the Mississippi on a brutal journey en route to the barrens of Oklahoma. Simultaneously, almost a million enslaved African Americans were carried in flatboats and marched by foot 1,000 miles over the Appalachians to the cotton and cane fields of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, birthing the term ?sold down the river.? Buck portrays this watershed era of American expansion as it was really lived. With a rare narrative power that blends stirring adventure with absorbing untold history, Life on the Mississippi is a mus­cular and majestic feat of storytelling from a writer who may be the closest that we have today to Mark Twain.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. 397 pages; minimal rubbing on DJ front's top edge. Signed by author on the title page. Very Good condition. No noteworthy defects. No other markings.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED. VG/VG. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed on the title page. The book is tight with solid hinges. Spine ends pushed and creased, small smudge on front board, and faint creases to bottom corners. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. B&W matte photos, drawings, and photographic color endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped ($32.50) with light creases to the spine head area (see photos) Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. 397 pages with index. 6½ x 9½". An epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck's journey down the Mississippi River illuminates the forgotten past of America's first western frontier. Buck casts off 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. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 397 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is white with red lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "$32.50" on front flap, and has mild shelving wear along spine head and tail. Boards have mild bumping to fore corners and moderate shelving wear along spine head, tail, and joints. Contains receipt of original purchase. Signed flat on title page by Rinker Buck. Shelved in hallway. 1389772. Special Collections.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 320 pages. 9.25x6.12x0.82 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnRinker Buck began his career in journalism at the Berkshire Eagle and was a longtime staff writer for the Hartford Courant. He has written for Vanity Fair, New York, Life, and many other publications, and his work has won .