Publicado por Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2022
ISBN 10: 1501106376 ISBN 13: 9781501106378
Librería: ZBK Books, Carlstadt, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Avid Reader Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 1501106384 ISBN 13: 9781501106385
Librería: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
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Publicado por Simon & Schuster Audio, 2022
ISBN 10: 1797141368 ISBN 13: 9781797141367
Librería: HPB-Diamond, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por New York Avid Reader Press, 2022
Librería: Jeff Jeremias Fine Arts, RMABA, Aurora, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: RMABA
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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. 397 numbered pages. Illustrated. Bookstore stamp inside, else near fine condition in fine dust jacket. (E6).
Publicado por Avid Reader Press, New York, 2022
Librería: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover, in dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket, with faint sticker shadow front panel, in mylar cover.
Publicado por Cengage Gale, 2022
ISBN 13: 9798885782197
Librería: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. 39. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Publicado por Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster August 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1501106376 ISBN 13: 9781501106378
Librería: Reclaimed Bookstore, Richmond, VA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Used. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. Signed First Edition with minor bumps/wear at edges/corners. Pages are clean and bright. Spine is straight and tight. Overall a very good signed first edition!. Signed By Author.
Publicado por Avid Reader Press, New York, 2022
ISBN 10: 1501106376 ISBN 13: 9781501106378
Librería: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Near Fine dust jacket. Owner personalization stamped on second front end page. ; 416 pages.
Publicado por Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2022
ISBN 10: 1501106376 ISBN 13: 9781501106378
Librería: JLJ Books, San Francisco, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. SIGNED on title page. Personally signed by Rinker Buck directly on the title page. Not signed to anyone. (Not signed on a bookplate or a blank tipped in page bound in by the publisher.) Photos of Rinker Buck at the signing event will be included with the signed book. Stated First Edition/ First Printing with a full number line: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Hardcover. Book is NEW and UNREAD, opened only for signing. No marks, no inscriptions. Not a book club edition, not an ex-library. Dust jacket is new, not price-clipped, in a removable, protective clear cover. This is a beautiful autographed first edition for collectors. Makes a great gift. Signed by Author(s).
Publicado por Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2022
ISBN 10: 1501106376 ISBN 13: 9781501106378
Librería: Books On The Boulevard, Daphne, AL, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
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Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. First edition. Hardcover, signed. First edition, first printing. Hard cover. Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster (2022) New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Brand new, never read SIGNED by the author directly to the full title page. Not a tip in. Not a bookplate. Dust jacket wrapped in protective archival grade Mylar. Photos available upon request. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Audacious Life on the Mississippi sparkles. The Wall Street Journal * A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection. St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Both a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about America s westward expansion. The Christian Science Monitor 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. Seven years ago, readers around the country fell in love with a singular American voice: Rinker Buck, whose infectious curiosity about history launched him across the West in a covered wagon pulled by mules and propelled his book about the trip, The Oregon Trail, to ten weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, Buck returns to chronicle his latest incredible adventure: building a wooden flatboat from the bygone era of the early 1800s and journeying down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. A modern-day Huck Finn, Buck casts off down the river on the flatboat Patience accompanied by an eccentric crew of daring shipmates. Over the course of his voyage, Buck steers his fragile wooden craft through narrow channels dominated by massive cargo barges, rescues his first mate gone overboard, sails blindly through fog, breaks his ribs not once but twice, and camps every night on sandbars, remote islands, and steep levees. As he charts his own journey, he also delivers a richly satisfying work of history that brings to life a lost era. The role of the flatboat in our country s evolution is far more significant than most Americans realize. Between 1800 and 1840, millions of farmers, merchants, and teenage adventurers embarked from states like Pennsylvania and Virginia on flatboats headed beyond the Appalachians to Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Settler families repurposed the wood from their boats to build their first cabins in the wilderness; cargo boats were broken apart and sold to build the boomtowns along the water route. Joining the river traffic were floating brothels, called gun boats; smithy boats for blacksmiths; even whiskey boats for alcohol. In the present day, America s inland rivers are a superhighway dominated by leviathan barges carrying $80 billion of cargo annually all descended from flatboats like the ramshackle Patience. As a historian, Buck resurrects the era s adventurous spirit, but he also challenges familiar myths about American expansion, confronting the bloody truth behind settlers push for land and wealth. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced more than 125, 000 members of the Cherokee, Choctaw, and several other tribes to travel the Mississippi on a brutal journey en route to the barrens of Oklahoma. Simultaneously, almost a million enslaved African Americans were carried in flatboats and marched by foot 1, 000 miles over the Appalachians to the cotton and cane fields of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, birthing the term sold down the river. Buck portrays this watershed era of American expansion as it was really lived. With a rare narrative power that blends stirring adventure with absorbing untold history, Life on the Mississippi is a mus cular and majestic feat of storytelling from a writer who may be the closest that we have today to Mark Twain. Signed by Author.