Old Glory An American Voyage Author:Jonathan Raban Cutting through the center of the American countryside and imagination is the Mississippi River, a two thousand mile passageway that first beckoned to Jonathan Raban when he read Huckleberry Finn decades ago. Zigzagging downstream in a sixteen foot boat from Minneapolis to New Orleans gave Raban an insider's perspective on life in the ... more »heartland. His portrayal of the people and places along the way numbers among the best books of travel ever written.« less
This was a main selection of the Book of the Month Club-the author travels the Mississippi and immerses himself in the towns and the people on his route from Minneapolis to New Orleans.