Where the River Runs Deep: The Story of a Mississippi River Pilot Tapa blanda - 1999

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Paperback / softback. New. Joy J. Jackson's Where the River Runs Deep tells two stories- both significant and both fascinating. It is a biography of the author's father, Oliver Jackson, who spent virtually his entire life on or near the Mississippi River. And it is a history of the river itself, and the many changes that have transformed it in the twentieth century. Born in an oysterman's camp in south Louisiana, only a few miles from the Gulf of Mexico, and raised in an orphanage in New Orleans, Oliver Jackson (1896- 1985) grew up to become a pilot boat crew member, a merchant seaman, a tugboat-man, and ultimately a Mississippi River pilot, the profession to which he had always aspired. Drawing extensively on oral history, including a series of audiotapes her father recorded before his death, Jackson presents a detailed social history not only of her father and his forebears but of a way of life now past. She vividly portrays village life in once-thriving but now-vanished river… Leer más

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

LSU Press, 1999-03-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!