Jonathan Raban lives in Seattle, Washington.
Brief Biography
- Hometown:
- Seattle, Washington
- Date of Birth:
- June 14, 1942
- Place of Birth:
- Norfolk, England
Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi
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- ISBN-13: 9780375701009
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication date: 05/28/1998
- Series: Vintage Departures Series
- Edition description: Reprint
- Pages: 416
- Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.90(d)
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The author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a spartan sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another masterpiece of contemporary American travel writing. In the course of his voyage, Raban records the mercurial caprices of the river and the astonishingly varied lives of the people who live along its banks. Whether he is fishing for walleye or hunting coon, discussing theology in Prairie Du Chien or race relations in Memphis, he is an expert observer of the heartyland's estrangement from America's capitals ot power and culture, and its helpless nostalgia for its lost past. Witty, elegaic, and magnificently erudite, Old Glory is as filled with strong currents as the Mississippi itself.
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