Mississippi Solo: A River Quest

Since the publication of his first book Mississippi Solo Eddy L. Harris has been praised for his travel writing. In this exciting reissue of his classic travelogue readers will come to treasure the rich insightful prose that is as textured as the Mississippi River itself. They will be taken by the hand by an adventurer whose lifelong dream is to canoe the length of this mighty river from Minnesota to New Orleans. The trips dangers were legion for a Black man traveling alone paddling from where there aint no black folks to where they still dont like us much. Barge waives loom large wild dogs roam the wooded shores and in the Arkansas dusk two shotgun-toting bigots nearly bring the authors dream to a bloody . Sustaining him through the hard weeks of paddling were the hundreds of people who reached out to share a small piece of his challenge. Mississippi Solo is a big rollicking brilliant book a wonderful piece of American adventure and an unforgettable story of a man testing his own limits.