I haven't seen the new book--simply passed along a press release.
Dr. Wesley Britton
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From: "Kevin Mac Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: new book on Mississippi
> It sounds similar to John McDermott's BEFORE MARK TWAIN, A SAMPLER OF OLD
> OLD TIMES ON THE MISSISSIPPI (1968). Have you compared them?
>
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> From: "Wes Britton" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 4:43 PM
> Subject: new book on Mississippi
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>
>> Saw this today--thought folks might be interested.
>>
>> WICKED RIVER: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild by Lee Sandlin =
>> (Anchor . 368 pages . on sale: 10/4/11 . price: $15.95 . ISBN: =
>> 978-0-307-47357-8). From
>>
>> award-winning journalist Lee Sandlin comes a riveting look at one of the
>> =
>> most colorful, dangerous, and peculiar places in America's historical =
>> landscape:
>>
>> the strange, wonderful, and mysterious Mississippi River of the =
>> nineteenth century. Beginning in the early 1800s and climaxing with the =
>> siege of Vicksburg
>>
>> in 1863, WICKED RIVER takes us back to a time before the Mississippi was
>> =
>> dredged into a shipping channel, and before Mark Twain romanticized it =
>> into myth.
>>
>> Drawing on an array of suspenseful and bizarre firsthand accounts, =
>> Sandlin brings to life a place where river pirates brushed elbows with =
>> future presidents
>>
>> and religious visionaries shared passage with thieves-a world unto =
>> itself where, every night, near the levees of the big river towns, =
>> hundreds of boats
>>
>> gathered to form dusk-to-dawn cities dedicated to music, drinking, and =
>> gambling. Here is a minute-by-minute account of Natchez being flattened =
>> by a tornado;
>>
>> the St. Louis harbor being crushed by a massive ice floe; hidden, =
>> nefarious celebrations of Mardi Gras; and the sinking of the Sultana, =
>> the worst naval
>>
>> disaster in American history. Here, too, is the Mississippi itself: =
>> gorgeous, perilous, and unpredictable, lifeblood to the communities that
>> =
>> rose and fell
>>
>> along its banks. An exuberant work of Americana-at once history, =
>> culture, and geography-WICKED RIVER is a grand epic that portrays a =
>> forgotten society
>>
>> on the edge of revolutionary change.
>>
>>
>> Dr. Wesley Britton
>> www.spywise.net
>>
>> Co-host, Dave White Presents
>> www.audioentertainment.org/dwp
>>
>>
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