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\n NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * \u201cAudacious\u2026Life on the Mississippi sparkles.\u201d \u2014The Wall Street Journal * \u201cA rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection.\u201d \u2014St. Louis Post-Dispatch * \u201cBoth a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about America\u2019s westward expansion.\u201d \u2014The Christian Science Monitor<\/p>\n

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 \u201cflatboat era\u201d of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River, illuminating the forgotten past of America\u2019s first western frontier.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The role of the flatboat in our country\u2019s 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 \u201cgun boats\u201d; \u201csmithy boats\u201d for blacksmiths; even \u201cwhiskey boats\u201d for alcohol. In the present day, America\u2019s inland rivers are a superhighway dominated by leviathan barges\u2014carrying $80 billion of cargo annually\u2014all descended from flatboats like the ramshackle Patience.<\/p>\n

As a historian, Buck resurrects the era\u2019s adventurous spirit, but he also challenges familiar myths about American expansion, confronting the bloody truth behind settlers\u2019 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 \u201csold down the river.\u201d Buck portrays this watershed era of American expansion as it was really lived.<\/p>\n

With a rare narrative power that blends stirring adventure with absorbing untold history, Life on the Mississippi is a mus\u00adcular and majestic feat of storytelling from a writer who may be the closest that we have today to Mark Twain.

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Publisher \u200f : \u200e Avid Reader Press \/ Simon & Schuster (August 9, 2022)
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Hardcover \u200f : \u200e 416 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 1501106376
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-1501106378
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 1.6 pounds
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 6.25 x 1.2 x 9.25 inches <\/p>\n

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Customers find the book well-written, interesting, and worth reading in small pieces. They appreciate the narrative history and great adventure story. Readers describe the book as informative, educational, and entertaining. They mention it’s funny and incites their curiosity.<\/span><\/p>\n

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