Life on the Mississippi by Rinker Buck

Life on the Mississippi by Rinker Buck was received directly from the publisher and I chose to review it. Having grown up near the mighty Mississippi River, I was always infatuated with it. I would watch the barges come and go and back then there were some pleasure craft that would brave the great river. Rinker kind of had the same thoughts so he built and piloted a 'flat" boat 200o miles, from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, down the Ohio to the Mississippi River, camping along the river each night and changing crews every so often. What Rinker writes about would make any Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn fan (are there any left of those types of fan's?), take notice. If you, or someone you buy gifts for envisions a life on the Mississippi and likes to learn things about points along the river, certainly give this book a read.

5 Stars