Download or read book Paddleways of Mississippi written by Ernest Herndon and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mississippi rivers and creeks have shaped every aspect of the state’s geology, ecology, economy, settlement, and politics. Mississippi's paddleways—its rivers, rills, creeks, and streams—are its arteries, its lifeblood, and the connective tissues that tie its stories and histories together and flood them with a sense of place and impel them along the current of time. The rivers provide structure for the telling of stories. In Paddleways of Mississippi: Rivers and People of the Magnolia State, readers will discover flowing details of virtually every waterway in the state—the features, wildlife, vegetation, geology, hydrology, and specific challenges to be expected—alongside many wonderful historical and social accounts specific to each system. Interviews and oral histories enliven these waterways with evocative scenery, engaging anecdotes, interesting historical tales, and personal accounts of the people and communities that arose along the waterways of Mississippi. Part natural history, part narrative nonfiction, Paddleways of Mississippi will appeal to outdoor enthusiasts, anglers, naturalists, campers, and historians, and is suitable for novices as well as experts. Told together, the pieces included are a social and ecological history that exposes and deepens the connection coursing between the people and the rivers.
Download or read book Canoeing Mississippi written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete guidebook for paddling the rivers and streams of Mississippi
Download or read book Pass the Paddle written by Gerald E. Schumm Jr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-10-27 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Man, One Canoe, Nineteen Friends, One Majestic River! Pass the Paddle: Mississippi Dreamin’ Come Hell or High Water is Jerry Schumm’s (aka the Paddlin’ Pastor) memoir of his journey down the Mississippi River. It was an excursion like no other. Jerry never paddled alone. Friends and family members signed up for “legs” of the river. A ceremonial paddle was passed from one canoeist to the next—a giant relay. For fellow adventurers, the book provides a day-by-day documentation of the Mississippi River voyage from the headwaters at Lake Itasca to New Orleans. It also is the story of family, friendship, spirituality, and the goodness of folks met along the way. More importantly, it is the tale of a man who has the qualities needed to actualize a life-long dream: positive attitude, persistence, and patience.
Download or read book Paddling the Mississippi written by Jonathan Wunrow and published by Life Is Twisted Press. This book was released on 2022-02-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join author Jonathan Wunrow as he paddles his 131/2-foot-long solo Wenonah canoe for an epic 2,171-mile journey down the Mighty Mississippi River. From the ankle deep headwaters of Itasca State Park, across massive lakes named Winnibigoshish and Pepin, through 29 Army Corps locks and dams, travel with the author as he shares the river with tug boats pushing quarter-mile-long barges and eventually reaches the Gulf of Mexico via the increasingly popular Atchafalaya River and alligator swollen Hog Bijou. Paddling the Mississippi: One Story at a Time is the vivid account of a 90-day river journey that was completed in 2019 and 2020 by the author and his cousin and paddling brother Jeff. Paddlers and armchair adventurers alike, will enjoy the many faces of this amazing river, and the characters that live along its banks.
Download or read book Older Than Dirt Meets The Big Muddy written by Leland Walker and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Thursday, October 13 2022, Leland Walker completed his solo paddle of the Mississippi River in a 14 ft kayak. Leland is an 82 year old resident of Jonesboro, Georgia. He paddled the river in two segments. He paddled the upper river from Lake Itasca in Minnesota to Alton, IL in the fall of 2021. He stopped because of drought and winter. He resumed his trip in July of 2022 in Alton, IL. and paddled the lower river to the Gulf of Mexico. He is one of three people known to have paddled the entire river at the age of 80 or over. This book is his daily log of that trip.
Download or read book Down the Mississippi written by Leo Sheridan Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mississippi Solo written by Eddy L. Harris and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true account of a young black man's journey in quest of a lifelong dream: to canoe the length of the Mississippi River, from its source in Minnesota down to New Orleans.
Download or read book Threading a Kayak down the Mississippi written by Dennis Van Norman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005, Dennis Van Norman climbed into a kayak for the first time to spend an afternoon “Huck Finning” down the Mississippi River with his son and grandson. Little did he know that what started as an innocent, eight-mile kayaking introduction would eventually become a passion—or an addiction. He spent thirteen years, from his sixties through his mid-seventies, kayaking the length of the Mississippi, bit by bit, traveling more than 2,500 river miles from northern Minnesota to the southern tip of Louisiana in a boat built for one. Threading a Kayak down the Mississippi is the story of how one traveler fully experienced and embraced the Mississippi River and its surroundings. In the vein of Jonathan Raban's Old Glory, Dennis's account casts light on the Mississippi River’s history, geography, and sociology, but it is a book about more than the river itself—it’s also about the individuals and characters living along the Mississippi’s shores. From the local foods and music to the customs and history, each experience is sandwiched between moments of pure serenity and those of sheer terror. This is the story of a journey of discovery on the country’s most celebrated waterway, and an exploration of the wonderment, joy, and fear that will inevitably grab hold of you when you’re sitting alone in a fourteen-foot plastic boat on America’s greatest river.
Download or read book Paddling the Pascagoula written by Ernest Herndon and published by Gulf Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By kayak and canoe, an appreciative adventure along America's last unaltered river system
Download or read book Paddle Steamers written by Ken Watson and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fifty Years on the Mississippi Or Gould s History of River Navigation written by Emerson W. Gould and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paddling and Piloting written by and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mississippi by Raft written by Richard Ankony and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first thing you will learn about the Mississippi River if you travel the length of it, is that "Tug Boats Rule." These "monsters" that are pushing their massive loads in barges, both rule the day and the night and take no prisoners. For if someone tells you that they traveled the river and do not inform you of this, then they have done you a grave disservice. For either they hugged the shoreline the whole way, so as to keep themselves out of harm's way, or they didn't go at all. If you intend to travel this majestic and mighty river by raft, canoe or kayak then you must know this critical fact, otherwise your life will be in imminent danger. For those of us who went the distance in the sea-lane or center of the channel, learned quickly, that tugboats are to the Mississippi River as great white sharks are to the oceans. You must give them a wide berth and pay homage to them or you will pay the ultimate price. The second thing you must be told about the Mississippi River is that the river is alive, a living being, but not "Old Man River." Yes, she is a living being, a woman, a mother and a teacher who will embrace you with her love, tenderness and beauty. But as a teacher and a mother, you must pay attention and listen to her advice for your survival depends on it or you will die. The third thing you must be told is that the American people who live along the riverbanks of this great river have to be the kindest and sweetest people you will ever meet. For from them, they restored my faith, renewed my dreams and from their simple humanity, I was born again. That said, come join three Detroit city white boys, who bought a $50.00 rubber raft and a small trolling outboard engine with a broken propeller to take on the mighty Mississippi. We were clueless about waterways and rivers but a gentleman's bet pushed us to the limits and outside the envelope of what most people can only dream about. During our journey we gained the respect of the rivermen and the twenty-nine lockmasters that monitored us throughout our near 30-day adventure. Come follow our true story as three young men with $150.00 each and a $50.00 rubber raft navigate the mighty Mississippi with all its dangers at eye level. Follow us, as we and four other teams of young men from across the nation who met a different fate then ours, challenged the mighty Mississippi by canoe and small rafts. Join us as we travel through the heartland of America with just gas station maps and a $10 dollar compass to point the way in this heart-warming venture. Experience the dangers that we encountered as we face broken dams, breached levees, flooding conditions, snakes, raging whirlpools and the dreaded "four stackers" that took the lives of our friends. See how an old black man in the bayous saved our lives as if an angel like in the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life." The Hollywood movie, "Deliverance" is fictional and the actors play "pretend" but our names are real and our story is true, so follow us as we travel at wave level 2,300 miles and 29 locks down the mighty Mississippi. I, Richard, invite you to come join my friends, Dave and Tonsabuns, who lived the dream of the young at heart as I recall the greatest trip of my lifetime. Lastly, as an epitaph to the memory of my dear friends who have since disappeared and to those eight young men who perished who will rise again to the sure and certain resurrection to the life of the world to come when the Mississippi River shall give up her dead. I, Richard, last man standing, write this in remembrance of yous. Now, we are immortal.
Download or read book Oil in the Deep South written by Dudley J. Hughes and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prevented the oil and gas from crossing into adjoining states. This is the first book to document the history of the petroleum business in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. It records a statistical and chronological summary and highlights the many people and companies involved in the oil industry during its early days in this region. After too many discouraging years of exploration, success finally came in 1939. The big payoff was the discovery of the Tinsley Oil Field.
Download or read book Fifty Years on the Mississippi written by Emerson W. Gould and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mississippi by Raft written by Richard Ankony and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-29 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first thing you will learn about the Mississippi River if you travel the length of it, is that "Tug Boats Rule." These "monsters" that are pushing their massive loads in barges, both rule the day and the night and take no prisoners. For if someone tells you that they traveled the river and do not inform you of this, then they have done you a grave disservice. For either they hugged the shoreline the whole way, so as to keep themselves out of harm's way, or they didn't go at all. If you intend to travel this majestic and mighty river by raft, canoe or kayak then you must know this critical fact, otherwise your life will be in imminent danger. For those of us who went the distance in the sea-lane or center of the channel, learned quickly, that tugboats are to the Mississippi River as great white sharks are to the oceans. You must give them a wide berth and pay homage to them or you will pay the ultimate price. The second thing you must be told about the Mississippi River is that the river is alive, a living being, but not "Old Man River." Yes, she is a living being, a woman, a mother and a teacher who will embrace you with her love, tenderness and beauty. But as a teacher and a mother, you must pay attention and listen to her advice for your survival depends on it or you will die. The third thing you must be told is that the American people who live along the riverbanks of this great river have to be the kindest and sweetest people you will ever meet. For from them, they restored my faith, renewed my dreams and from their simple humanity, I was born again. That said, come join three Detroit city white boys, who bought a $50.00 rubber raft and a small trolling outboard engine with a broken propeller to take on the mighty Mississippi. We were clueless about waterways and rivers but a gentleman's bet pushed us to the limits and outside the envelope of what most people can only dream about. During our journey we gained the respect of the rivermen and the twenty-nine lockmasters that monitored us throughout our near 30-day adventure. Come follow our true story as three young men with $150.00 each and a $50.00 rubber raft navigate the mighty Mississippi with all its dangers at eye level. Follow us, as we and four other teams of young men from across the nation who met a different fate then ours, challenged the mighty Mississippi by canoe and small rafts. Join us as we travel through the heartland of America with just gas station maps and a $10 dollar compass to point the way in this heart-warming venture. Experience the dangers that we encountered as we face broken dams, breached levees, flooding conditions, snakes, raging whirlpools and the dreaded "four stackers" that took the lives of our friends. See how an old black man in the bayous saved our lives as if an angel like in the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life." The Hollywood movie, "Deliverance" is fictional and the actors play "pretend" but our names are real and our story is true, so follow us as we travel at wave level 2,300 miles and 29 locks down the mighty Mississippi. I, Richard, invite you to come join my friends, Dave and Tonsabuns, who lived the dream of the young at heart as I recall the greatest trip of my lifetime. Lastly, as an epitaph to the memory of my dear friends who have since disappeared and to those eight young men who perished who will rise again to the sure and certain resurrection to the life of the world to come when the Mississippi River shall give up her dead. I, Richard, last man standing, write this in remembrance of yous. Now, we are immortal.
Download or read book Cruising the Mississippi From New Orleans to Memphis on a Genuine Paddlewheeler written by Sunny Lockwood and published by Front Porch Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In crossing another travel adventure off their bucket list, two retirees take a river cruise and find the heart and soul of the American South. Born travelers Al and Sunny Lockwood seized their dreams of exploring America's natural wonders. From hiking mountain trails to photographing wildflowers in Death Valley, they've documented their fascinating journeys to critical acclaim. After a brush with death, they stopped putting off their desire to cruise oceans. Now well into retirement, these veteran travelers embrace a new travel adventure with a river cruise up the great and powerful Mississippi. Join Al and Sunny on the decks of an antebellum-era paddle wheel riverboat as they experience the culinary delights, rich architecture, breathtaking vistas, and famous hospitality of southern culture. You'll visit lavish plantation mansions, honor the fallen at Civil War memorials, and be swept away by the magical beat of authentic New Orleans jazz. Before the journey ends, you'll witness how the couple's first impressions are challenged, changing their hearts forever. In Cruising the Mississippi, you'll discover: - Fascinating histories of riverside cities and little-known facts about famous landmarks - Personal reflections and insights from their day-to-day experiences - Tested travel tips and advice for embarking on your own river cruise adventure -The lifelong benefits of immersing yourself in different customs and cultural experiences - A detailed tour of the historic paddle-wheel riverboat, and much, much more! If you like cultural exploration, practical travel insights, colorful characters, and authentic personal stories, then you'll love Al and Sunny Lockwood's illuminating exploration of America's mightiest waterway. Buy Cruising the Mississippi today and embark on a breathtaking adventure for the young at heart!
