Mississippi Currents: Journeys Through Time and a Valley

Malcolm, Andrew H.; Straus, Roger III

ISBN 10: 0688119409 / ISBN 13: 9780688119409

Published by William Morrow & Co, New York, 1996

About this Item

America's mightiest waterway, the Missippi River, flows through our history, our continent, our music, our imaginations, and our national consciousness. Laminated illustrated boards, 221 pp., more 60 photos, illustrated jacket. Signed by the author [without presentation note] on the title page. Tiny remainder mark on bottom edge otherwise like new!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mississippi Currents: Journeys Through Time and a Valley
• Publisher: William Morrow & Co, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0688119409
• ISBN 13: 9780688119409
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

More than sixty photographs and incisive accompanying essays portray the people whose lives, work, literature, music, and land have been shaped by the Mississippi River. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

Reviews

Wedding Malcolm's lyrical, muscular prose to Straus's wonderfully evocative, often wistful photographs, this memorable travelogue explores the Mississippi River as a diverse waterway, vital economic route, elemental natural force and living symbol of the mid-American psyche. By ship, barge and on foot, the authors followed the Mississippi's entire course, from northern Minnesota's woods through thriving heartland riverfront towns to the "chemical alley" of Baton Rouge, lined with refineries and factories, ending in the Gulf's watery wilds. They interview park rangers, hydraulic engineers, a riverboat casino operator, a bank president, witnesses to the flood of 1993, mingling personal stories with snippets of history and observations on the intrepid, inventive spirit of a region that spawned the airplane, the steel plow, Mark Twain, American populism and half the presidents since the Civil War. Their deceptively leisurely journey becomes a quest for the soul of America. Malcolm is a policy adviser to Montana's governor; Straus is chair of High Tide Press. Author tour.
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In their latest collaboration, Malcolm and photographer Straus (U.S. 1, America's Original Main Street, St. Martin's, 1991) offer a travel journal that follows the Mississippi from its inauspicious beginnings at Lake Itasca, Minnesota, to its majestic ending as it empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Malcolm's narrative meanders through the lives and towns that line the Mississippi River much as the river itself sidewinds through the heartland of America. His writing style is familiar and rambling, not unlike another writer associated with the Mississippi, Mark Twain. The work is an interesting history of the river that forms the backbone of the American continent. Appropriate for public libraries.?Sandra Knowles, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia
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