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Mississippi Currents: Journeys Through Time and a Valley
Mississippi Currents Journeys Through Time and a Valley Author:Andrew H. Malcolm Force of nature, gateway to the frontier, America's mightiest river, the Mississippi flows through our history and our national consciousness. Now, in the tradition of James Agee and Walker Evans's classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Andrew H. Malcolm and Roger Straus, III, travel the entire length of the river, telling the stories ... more »of the real people who live, work, and play along its banks. In evocative words and more than 60 eloquent pictures, Malcolm and Straus portray the countless ways the Mississippi has shaped the lives, economy, literature, music, and indeed, the entire character of the American heartland.« less