Life on the Mississippi by Rinker Buck, Read by Jason Culp
Take a Journey Down the Mississippi
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Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Robin Whitten discuss Life on the Mississippi and the fun of listening to Jason Culp narrating this tale of an unusual journey. Flatboats were once the most common craft on America’s rivers, but when Rinker Buck took his down the Monongahela, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans in 2016—as he recounts in this audiobook—it was an object of considerable curiosity. Culp narrates smoothly as Buck follows the boat downriver, and capably narrates the author’s meditations on history, navigation, and human nature.
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