Life on the Mississippi - An Epic American Adventure

A "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"--Dust jacket flap.

About the author

Rinker 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 the PEN New England Award, the Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award, and the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Oregon Trail, Flight of Passage, and First Job. He lives in Tennessee.

Product details

• Authors: Rinker Buck, Buck Rinker
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.10.2022
• EAN: 9781501106378
• ISBN: 978-1-5011-0637-8
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 696 g
• Illustrations: rough front; b&w images throughout; 4-c printed ends
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Mississippi, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Expeditions, HISTORY / United States / General, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, c 1800 to c 1900, Expeditions: popular accounts, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, Mississippi-Missouri river and tributaries