![]() ![]() I’m interested in the idea that we don't always receive the true history from our teachers, our university professors, and even the writers of important popular books. Can you discuss your motivation for taking this next adventure? This book is a natural follow-up to The Oregon Trail. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. For armchair-travel aficionados and frontier-history buffs, it doesn’t get much better.” I spoke with the author via Zoom from his home outside of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. It all makes for an entertaining journey in the manner of William Least Heat-Moon, John McPhee, and other traveler-explainers. As our starred review notes, “Besides being a willing and intrepid traveler, Buck is also an able interpreter of history, and it’s clear that he’s devoured a library of Mississippiana. 9), the author chronicles his voyage down the Mississippi River to New Orleans aboard Patience, a 19 th-century-style flatboat he built with the help of friends and an eccentric boat-builder. In his latest book, Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure (Avid Reader Press, Aug. ![]() ![]() In two previous books, he recounted a coast-to-coast journey with his brother via tiny prop plane ( Flight of Passage) and an extremely demanding trek from Missouri to Oregon in a 19th-century covered wagon pulled by three mules ( The Oregon Trail). ![]() Though he spent years as a journalist for a variety of publications, from the Berkshire Eagle to Life, Buck is, above all, an adventurer. ![]()
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