Mississippi solo : a river quest

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Label

Mississippi solo : a river quest

Title remainder

a river quest

Statement of responsibility

Eddy L. Harris

Creator

• Harris, Eddy L

Subject

• African Americans -- Travel -- Mississippi River
• Canoes and canoeing
• Canoes and canoeing -- Mississippi River
• Harris, Eddy L
• African Americans -- Travel
• Mississippi River
• Mississippi River -- Description and travel
• Travel
• Harris, Eddy L. -- Travel -- Mississippi River

Language

eng

Summary

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 end. 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

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction