{"product_id":"old-man-river-9781250053107","title":"Old Man River","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paul Schneider\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Picador Paper\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Picador Paper\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: United States - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOld Man River\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePirates 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 \u003ci\u003eLittle House in the Big Woods\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHalf-devastated product of American ingenuity, half-magnificent natural wonder, it is impossible to imagine America without the Mississippi.","brand":"Picador Paper","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45122264203415,"sku":"9781250053107","price":2054.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781250053107.webp?v=1767144181","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/old-man-river-9781250053107","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}