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Old Glory : An American Journey - Jonathan Raban

Old Glory

An American Journey

By: Jonathan Raban

Paperback | 24 January 2018

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Navigating the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans, Raban opens himself to experience the river in all her turbulent and unpredictable old glory. Going wherever the current takes him, he joins a coon-hunt in Savana, falls for a girl in St Louis, worships with black Baptists in Memphis, hangs out with the housewives of Pemiscot and the hog-king of Dubuque.

Through tears of laughter, we are led into the heartland of America – with its hunger and hospitality, its inventive energy and its charming lethargy – and come to know something of its soul.

The journey is as much the story of Raban as it is of the Mississippi. Navigating the dangerous, ever-changing waters in an unsuitably fragile aluminium skiff, he immerses himself with an irresistible emotional intensity as he tries to give shape to the river and the story – finding himself by turns vulnerable, curious, angry and, like all of us, sometimes foolishly in love.
Industry Reviews
Jonathan Raban is one of the world’s greatest living travel writers.’
William Dalrymple

‘The best book of travel ever written by an Englishman about the United States’
Jan Morris, Independent

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