Jason Culp
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A modern-day Huck Finn, Rinker Buck casts off down the river on the flatboat Patience accompanied by an eccentric crew of daring shipmates. Over the course of his voyage, Buck steers his fragile wooden craft through narrow channels dominated by massive cargo barges, rescues his first mate gone overboard, sails blindly through fog, breaks his ribs not once but twice, and camps every night on sandbars, remote islands, and steep levees. As he charts...