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Old Glory

A Voyage Down the Mississippi

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Old Glory

By: Jonathan Raban
Narrated by: James Langton
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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 heartland’s estrangement from America’s capitals of power and culture, and its helpless nostalgia for its lost past. Witty, elegiac, and magnificently erudite, Old Glory is as filled with strong currents as the Mississippi itself.

©1981 Jonathan Raban (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing North America Sailing & Boating Travel Writing & Commentary United States Water Sports Sports Witty Sailing Mississippi
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I read this book many years ago and I recall it having an almost haunting quality, especially passages on the river but this narration spoiled it for me….too cartoonish and mocking, with unnecessary affected accents. Some of the pronounciation was off as well given the author was English as is the narrator but he used American pronounciation repeatedly. Almost wish I never listened to it but just read the book again.

An old favourite spoiled by poor narration

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