Old Glory: An American Voyage

Raban, Jonathan; Jonathan Raban

ISBN 10: 0671250612 / ISBN 13: 9780671250614

Published by Simon and Schuster UK Ltd./ A Viacom Company, New York, 1981

About this Item

409 pp. Nearly flawless book.Book and dj show minimal external wear. Writing on the cover page from previouse owner.

Seller Inventory # 1iiFi0004

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Old Glory: An American Voyage
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster UK Ltd./ A Viacom Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671250612
• ISBN 13: 9780671250614
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Jeanne Joudry (Design); Robert Anthony, Inc. (Jacket Design); Ned Haines (Photographs)
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • American Studies, History, Politics & Culture
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research

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Synopsis

Jonathan Raban is an English author who fell in love with the Mississippi River when he was a boy (he was reading HUCKLEBERRY FINN) . Over the years he dreamed about drifting its length. In 1979, he flew to Minneapolis, bought a 16 foot outboard launch, and set off for New Orleans. He takes us with him every step of the way. " The book and the journey would be all of a piece," Raban writes, " The plot would be written by the current of the river itself. It would carry one into long deep pools of solitude...Everything would be left to chance. There would be no advance reservations, no letters of introduction. One would try to be as much like a piece of driftwood as one could manage. "

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