num_pages: 409
description: The author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a spartan sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another masterpiece of contemporary American travel writing. In the course of his voyage, Raban records the mercurial caprices of the river and the astonishingly varied lives of the people who live along its banks. Whether he is fishing for walleye or hunting coon, discussing theology in Prairie Du Chien or race relations in Memphis, he is an expert observer of the heartyland's estrangement from America's capitals ot power and culture, and its helpless nostalgia for its lost past. Witty, elegaic, and magnificently erudite, Old Glory is as filled with strong currents as the Mississippi itself.
language: English
title: Old Glory: An American Voyage
titlecomplete: Old Glory: An American Voyage
genres: Biography Memoir, Memoir, Travel, Nonfiction, Travelogue, History, Adventure, Nature, The United States Of America, Biography
ratings_count: 736
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Society of Midland Authors Award
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: W.H. Heinemann Award
publisher: Perennial