Category: Regional: U.S.

Age Interest: Adults

Copyright/published: 1988 by Nick Lyons Books

ISBN: 1558210016

Binding: paperback

Description: Since the publication of his first book, Mississippi Solo, Eddy ? L. Harris has been praised for his travel writing. In this ? exciting reissue of his classic travelogue, readers will come to ? treasure the rich insightful prose that is as textured as the ? Mississippi River itself. They will be taken by the hand by an ? adventurer whose lifelong dream is to canoe the length of this ? mighty river, from Minnesota to New Orleans. The trip's dangers ? were legion for a Black man traveling alone, paddling from "where ? there ain't no black folks to where they still don't like us ? much." Barge waives loom large, wild dogs roam the wooded shores, ? and, in the Arkansas dusk, two shotgun-toting bigots nearly bring ? the author's dream to a bloody . Sustaining him through the hard ? weeks of paddling were the hundreds of people who reached out to ? share a small piece of his challenge. Mississippi Solo is a big, ? rollicking, brilliant book, a wonderful piece of American ? adventure, and an unforgettable story of a man testing his own ? limits.

Condition description: 1988 trade paperback. Has an embossed owner seal on the first page. Otherwise unmarked. Not written in.

This is a used book in good condition