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Title Life on the Mississippi [LARGE PRINT] : an epic American adventure / Rinker Buck.
Author Buck, Rinker, 1950- author.
Publication Info. Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022.
©2022
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  LARGE 977 BUC    Check Shelves
Edition Large print edition.
Description 671 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
large print (16 point) rda
Note "Published in 2022 by arrangement with Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc."--Title page verso.
Summary "The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker Buck, Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand 'flatboat era' of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River, illuminating the forgotten past of America's first western frontier"--Amazon.com.
Subject Buck, Rinker, 1950- -- Travel -- Mississippi River.
Patience (Flatboat)
Flatboats -- Mississippi River -- History.
Mississippi River -- Travel.
Mississippi River -- History.
Large type books.
Genre Large type books.
Travel writing.
ISBN 9798885782197 (large print) (hardcover) : $36.99
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