The Great River Gabriel Garcia Marquez thus begins the dangerous and

thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond

250 years after Cook's voyage to the South Pacific

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make it equally valuable as a work of scholarly reference for anyone seeking an authoritative and detailed account of the gods

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The Great River Gabriel Garcia Marquez thus begins the dangerous andThe Mississippi River lies at the heart of America, an undeniable life force that is intertwined with the nation's culture and history. Its watershed spans almost half the country, Mark Twain's travels on the river inspired our first national literature, and jazz and blues were born in its floodplains and carried upstream. In this landmark work of natural history, Boyce Upholt tells the epic story of this wild and unruly river, and the centuries of