Around the Bend: A Mississippi River Adventure

by C.C. Lockwood

Book Overview

In the summer of 1997 renowned nature photographer C. C. Lockwood embarked on a remarkable adventure. First by canoe and then by Grand Canyon-style pontoon raft, he journeyed the length of the Mississippi River--2,320 miles--from its source at Lake Itasca, Minnesota, to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico. Armed with his camera and computer equipment to transmit stories and pictures to schoolchildren, this "High Tech Huck Finn" trained his lens on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807123129
• ISBN13: 9780807123126
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 10.4" x 12.3"

Customer Reviews

Homer Meets Huck Finn

When Federico Garcia Lorca said, "The song, the picture, are only water drawn from the well of the people, and given back to them in a cup of beauty, so that in drinking, they know themselves," he envisaged works such as this: cups of beauty filled with commonplace things. You will never see the Great River in the same light again. A lush and extravagant work accomplished by one of America's premier photographers from a raft as it noodles its way from the river's source to its mouth. Along the way, you meet Willie the river hobo and the nutria, the regulars and occasionals who ply the river for fun or profit.