Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi
by Jonathan Raban

The author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a spartan sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another masterpiece of contemporary American travel writing. In the course of his voyage, Raban records the mercurial caprices of the river and the astonishingly varied lives of the people who live along its banks. Whether he is fishing for walleye or hunting coon, discussing theology in Prairie Du Chien or race relations in Memphis, he is an expert observer of the heartyland's estrangement from America's capitals ot power and culture, and its helpless nostalgia for its lost past. Witty, elegaic, and magnificently erudite, Bad Land is as filled with strong currents as the Mississippi itself.

"Vividly captures the texture of small-town everyday life... Old glory has given us a fresh portrait of ourselves."
--Newsweek

ZB1001    Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi              $14.00

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