Raban rides the river from Minneapolis to New Orleans. A romantic journey? Yes but fraught and dangerous too. The Mississippi is just there in all her old glory, rolling down through middle America with her cargoes of wheat, cotton, iron and coal. Raban gets the better deal. Following the river by land, it can rarely be seen for the hundred feet high levees. This old favourite, like the river, is both timeless and eternal.
(Jeremy Miller - bwl 79 Winter 2016 ) |
