- Taschenbuch: 256 Seiten
- Verlag: Houghton Mifflin; Auflage: Reprint (September 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0805059032
- ISBN-13: 978-0805059038
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,6 x 14 x 1,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.7 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (3 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 689.226 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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At 30 years old, Eddy Harris leaves his home in St. Louis and sets off into the chilly autumn for Lake Itasca. "I decided to canoe down the Mississippi River and to find out what I was made of," he writes. And Mississippi Solo is his stunning testament. Harris, who has authored Native Stranger, South of Haunted Dreams, and Still Life in Harlem, has been widely acclaimed since the first release of Mississippi Solo in 1988. It is greatly pleasing to see this important and stimulating first work revived.
As the Mississippi grows from its tiny source to a wide and powerful flow, Harris gains confidence as a canoeist, faith in his endeavor, and an understanding of his varying identity as an African American traveling alone from north to south in the United States. His exact and brilliantly revealing prose shows us how each bend in this mighty river turns itself within the paddler, how person and river are entwined--and who is in charge.
With an astute ear for irony, philosophy, and wisdom, as well as truths about the river, Harris takes the reader through locks and lakes on the northern Mississippi to the wild and swift and meandering river south of St. Louis. Songs of joy, troughs of loneliness, terrific storms, birdsong, paranoia, friendly captains, wild dogs, and ghosts of slaves fill his pages. Then we face off with two hunters, two shotguns, and Harris's single pistol... and still the river leads him on to New Orleans. Like the river he travels, Harris cuts through to the core of himself and his country. Triumphant! --Byron Ricks
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Harris's travelogue narrates his canoe trip down the Mighty Muddy from its headwaters in Minnesota's land of 10,000 lakes to the Delta Crescent City, New Orleans. His poignant impressions, philosophical reflections, and personal recollections from a St. Louis childhood brim with local color, humor, and realism that paint in vivid strokes his own spirit and life in the riverbank towns. Harris seems a combination of Mark Twain's Huck and Jim, but the black Stanford graduate paddled alone. His book is a commentary on America the beautiful, on the water, on helping hands, and on some not so helpinglike those of two shotgun-toting bigots. For travel, adventure, and Americana collections. Thomas J. Davis, SUNY at Buffalo
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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This book is terrific! If you're looking for a book that will force you to sit back and think about everyday life, this is it. This honest story of a man's brave journey down a river of pain, adventure, joy, and growth will inspire your soul and lift your spirits. Eddy's telling of his journey will touch you, guaranteed.
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After hearing of Mr. Harris' book on NPR, I thought a travel book down the Mississippi would be fun to read. Mississippi Solo was an enjoyable slice in time and space of a voyage through the heartland of America. Like the song "Proud Mary," Mr. Harris finds that "people on the river are happy to give." His journey lets the reader enjoy the river experience much like Steinbeck shares his adventure in his camper. Mississippi Solo is an enjoyable book for any river rat or river rat want-to-be.
Format:Taschenbuch
This is a wonderfully written, atmospheric travelogue. I give copies of this as gifts because it is such a beautiful book. RECOMMENDED. If I had to choose an author to have lunch with Eddy Harris would be in my top 3.
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