FREE: Old Glory an American Voyage by Jonathan Raban

The listing, Old Glory an American Voyage by Jonathan Raban has ended.

This hardcover book, copyright 1981, is in great condition including the dust cover and has no rips or tears.

Jonathan Raban brings us into his company - and takes us deep into the heart of America, as he travels down the Mississippi River, from Minneapolis to New Orleans, in a sixteen-foot boat.

The voyage began in September of 1979. But for Raban, it had really begun as a marvelous dream thirty years before, the first time he read Huckleberry Finn. "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, and into brushes with society on the shore...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. Cast off, let the Mississippi take hold, and trust to whatever adventures or longueurs the river might throw one's way. It was a journey that would be full of randomness, and haphazard, but would also have the controlled, insistent purpose of the river current as it drove southward and seaward to the Gulf of Mexico"

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