With such an expert hand on the tiller, Old Man River is an astonishing journey. Though the busiest waterway on the planet today, the Mississippi remains a paradox-a devastated product of American ingenuity, and a magnificent natural wonder. This time traveling film unfolds like a mystery novel, drawing you in with a story and. supply modelling), Paul Hugues (lead on industry), Jacob Hyppolite II. Schneider traces the history of the Mississippi from its origins in the deep geologic past to the present. THE BRUTAL MURDER OF DANNY LOCKIN (BARNABY from HELLO DOLLY). Even as countries struggle to manage the brutal shocks from the crisis, the. A conduit of real-life American prowess, the Mississippi is also a river of stories and myth.

Mark Twain and Herman Melville led their characters down its stream in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Confidence-Man.

In the 19th century, home-grown folk heroes such as Daniel Boone and the half-alligator, half-horse, Mike Fink, were creatures of the river. Sherman both came to President Lincoln's attention after their spectacular victories on the lower Mississippi. He and his family live in West Tisbury, Massachusetts. George Washington fought his first battle near the river, and Ulysses S. Paul Schneider is the acclaimed author of Bonnie and Clyde, Brutal Journey, The Enduring Shore, and The Adirondacks, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book. Since then, the river has been the site of historical significance, from the arrival of Spanish and French explorers in the 16th century to the Civil War. Some fifteen thousand years ago, the majestic river provided Paleolithic humans with the routes by which early man began to explore the continent's interior. Half-devastated product of American ingenuity, half-magnificent natural wonder, it is impossible to imagine America without the Mississippi.In Old Man River, Paul Schneider tells the story of the river at the center of America's rich history-the Mississippi.

It's Paul Robeson sitting on a cotton bale, Daniel Boone floating on a flatboat, and Paul Bunyan cutting trees in the neighborhood of Little House in the Big Woods. Pirates and riverbats, gamblers and slaves, hustlers and landscape painters, loggers and catfishers, tourists and missionaries: The Mississippi is a river of stories and myth. The fascinating cast of characters includes the French and Spanish explorers de Soto, Marquette and Joliet, and the incomparable La Salle George Washington fighting his first battle in an effort to secure the watershed the birth of jazz and blues and literary greats like Melville, Dickens, Trollope, and, of course, Mark Twain. Brutal Journey: The Epic Story of the First Crossing of North America Schneider, Paul on. Old Man River, Paul Schneider's exploration of America's great waterway-taking the reader from the Mississippi River's origins to its polluted present and tracing its prehistory, geology, and cultural and literary histories-is as vast as its subject.

Brutal Journey by Paul Schneider