I haven't seen the new book--simply passed along a press release. Dr. Wesley Britton www.spywise.net Co-host, Dave White Presents www.audioentertainment.org/dwp ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Mac Donnell" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> 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? > > Kevin > @ > Mac Donnell Rare Books > 9307 Glenlake Drive > Austin TX 78730 > 512-345-4139 > Member: ABAA, ILAB > ************************* > You may browse our books at > www.macdonnellrarebooks.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wes Britton" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 4:43 PM > Subject: new book on Mississippi > > >> 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 >> >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2012.0.1809 / Virus Database: 2085/4536 - Release Date: 10/03/11 >> > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.1809 / Virus Database: 2085/4536 - Release Date: 10/03/11 > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1410 / Virus Database: 1520/3937 - Release Date: 10/04/11 >