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 · Old Glory tells the tale of Raban's solo journey by boat down the Mississippi from Minneapolis to New Orleans. Along the way, he visits the great cities and backwater towns that dot this legendary American wonder. Raban demonstrates that the Mississippi is, in Cited by: 8. 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.4/5(9).  · Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi by Jonathan Raban () [Jonathan Raban] on bltadwin.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi by Jonathan Raban ().

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Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi. Old Glory.: Jonathan Raban. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, - Travel - pages. 0 Reviews. The author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong. Plot summary. Old Glory describes Raban's voyage down the Mississippi River in a foot aluminium "Mirrocraft" powered by a 15 h.p. Johnson outboard engine. Inspired by his reading of Mark Twain 's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a seven-year-old boy living in Norfolk, in which his local stream is transformed into the Mississippi Valley in his imagination, Raban sets out on his own personal journey thirty years later. Old Glory tells the tale of Raban's solo journey by boat down the Mississippi from Minneapolis to New Orleans. Along the way, he visits the great cities and backwater towns that dot this legendary American wonder. Raban demonstrates that the Mississippi is, in myriad ways, much more than a river.