Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure

Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure

Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand “flatboat era” of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River,…

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