Mississippi River Bibliography



Mississippi River Travel



Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain
Signet Classics; Reissue edition (2001)
ISBN: 0451528174


Mississippi Solo: A River Quest, Eddie Harris
Owl Books, Reprint edition (1998)
ISBN: 0805059032

Kenny Salwey's Tales of a River Rat: Adventures Along The Wild Mississippi, Kenny Salwey
Voyageur Press (2005)
ISBN: 0896586499

Bluffs to Bayous, Byron Curtis
Great Rivers Printing (2003)
ISBN: 0974015202

Around the Bend: A Mississippi River Adventure, C. C. Lockwood
Louisiana State University Press (1998)
ISBN: 0807123129

The Last Girls, Lee Smith
Algonquin Books (2003)
ISBN: 1565124057

River of Song: A Musical Journey Down the Mississippi. Elijah Wald
St. Martin's Press (1999)
ISBN: 0312200595

Down the Mississippi With Stinky: 2 Women, a Canoe, and a Kitten, Dorie Brunner
Prairie Oak Press, (2001)
ISBN: 1879483696

Floating Down the Country, Matthew G. Mohlke
Lone Oak Press (2001)
ISBN: 1883477492

River Journey, Clarence Jonk
Minnesota Historical Society Press (2003)
ISBN: 0873514351

Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi, Jonathan Raban (1998)
ISBN: 0375701001

River Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across America, William Least Heat Moon
Penguin Books (2001)
ISBN: 0140298606



Pasted Graphic One Good Story, Ron Severs

Pasted Graphic 1 Shantyboat on the Bayous, Harlan Hubbard

Pasted Graphic 2 A-Rafting on the Mississip', Charles Edward Russell


Big Muddy-Down the Mississippi Through America's Heartland, B.C. Hall and C.T. Wood



Environmental, travel, and other related books



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Paddling Books


Pasted Graphic 3 Path of the Paddle, Bill Mason


Expedition Canoeing, 3rd : A Guide to Canoeing Wild Rivers in North America, Cliff Jacobson
Globe Pequot; 3.00 edition (2000)
ISBN: 0762708379


Environmental Narratives


Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
Ballantine Books (1986)
ISBN: 0345345053

Desert Solitaire, Ed Abbey
Ballantine Books (1985)
ISBN: 0345326490


Children and the Outdoors


Last Child in the Woods, Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, Richard Louv
Algonquin Books (2005)
ISBN: 1565123913

Sharing the Joy of Nature: Nature Activities for All Ages, Joseph Cornell
Dawn Publishing(1989)
ISBN: 0916124525

Under One Rock: Bugs, Slugs, and Other Ughs, Anthony D. Fredericks
Dawn Publications ( 2001)
ISBN: 1584690275

Low-impact Camping


How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art, Kathleen Meyer
Ten Speed Press (1994)
ISBN: 0898156270

Leave No Trace: A Guide to the New Wilderness Etiquette, Annette McGivney
Mountaineers Books (2003)
ISBN: 0898869102

TV-Free Books


365 TV-Free Activities You Can Do with Your Child, Steve and Ruth Bennett
Adams Media Corporation, 2nd ed. (1996)
ISBN: 1558505857

365 Unplugged Family Fun Activities: A Year's Worth Of Ideas For Tv-Free, Video-Free, And Computer Game-Free Entertainment, Steve and Ruth Bennett
Da Capo Press (2005)
ISBN: 0738210005

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, Jerry Mander
Harper Perennial, Reprint ed. (1978)
ISBN: 0688082742


Other River-related Books


Down the River, Ed Abbey
Plume, Reissue edition (1991)
ISBN: 0452265630

When the Mississippi Ran Backwards : Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes, Jay Feldman
Free Press (2005)
ISBN: 0743242785

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, John M. Barry
Simon & Schuster (1998)
ISBN: 0684840022