{"product_id":"old-man-river-the-mississippi-river-in-north-american-history","title":"Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History","description":"Old Man River, Paul Schneider's exploration of America's great waterway―taking the reader from the Mississippi River's origins to its polluted present and tracing its prehistory, geology, and cultural and literary histories―is as vast as its subject.\n\nThe fascinating cast of characters includes the French and Spanish explorers de Soto, Marquette and Joliet, and the incomparable La Salle; George Washington fighting his first battle in an effort to secure the watershed; the birth of jazz and blues; and literary greats like Melville, Dickens, Trollope, and, of course, Mark Twain.\n\nPirates and riverbats, gamblers and slaves, hustlers and landscape painters, loggers and catfishers, tourists and missionaries: The Mississippi is a river of stories and myth. It's Paul Robeson sitting on a cotton bale, Daniel Boone floating on a flatboat, and Paul Bunyan cutting trees in the neighborhood of Little House in the Big Woods.\n\nHalf-devastated product of American ingenuity, half-magnificent natural wonder, it is impossible to imagine America without the Mississippi.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1250053102\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1250053102.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Schneider, Paul\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41561453297722,"sku":"DBV.1250053102.G","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1250053102-0.jpg?v=1785209027","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/old-man-river-the-mississippi-river-in-north-american-history","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}