LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI SIZE:Standard Eighteen-year-old Amelia Ashley

Eighteen-year-old Amelia Ashley

local gangsters and low-life pornographers after his cousin involves him in a failed heist

Written with lush lyricism

and automatic switching between devices6

hunting wild game for sustenance and roaming freely on the land

LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI SIZE:Standard Eighteen-year-old Amelia AshleySeven years ago, readers around the country fell in love with a singular American voice: Rinker Buck, whose infectious curiosity about history launched him across the West in a covered wagon pulled by mules and propelled his book about the trip, The Oregon Trail, to ten weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, Buck returns to chronicle his latest incredible adventure: building a wooden flatboat from the bygone era of the early 1800s and