{"product_id":"old-man-river-the-mississippi-river-in-north-american-history-1250053102","title":"Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1250053102\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Schneider, Paul\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOld 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.The 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.Pirates 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.Half-devastated product of American ingenuity, half-magnificent natural wonder, it is impossible to imagine America without the Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52192960938272,"sku":"NEW1250053102","price":17.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91El6KWLM5L.jpg?v=1786880775","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/old-man-river-the-mississippi-river-in-north-american-history-1250053102","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}