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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXUSS139)		  
Life on the Mississippi  •  Mark Twain
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 388 PAGES
A classic marking Twain's return to the days of his youth spent on the Mississippi. Full of historical information, anecdotes, character sketches and fond memories, it's an enjoyable look back at the Old Mississippi. (USS05, $9.95)		   Life on the Mississippi
Wicked River, The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild  •  Lee Sandlin
HISTORY •  2011 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES
Sandlin composes a lively portrait of the Mississippi River before it was domesticated as a shipping channel. He draws on firsthand accounts to depict a 19th century society that gave rise to presidents and river pirates. Sandlin gives accounts of secret Mardi Gras celebrations, a harbor crushed by an ice floe, the sinking of the Sultana, nightly gambling and debauchery aboard hundreds of boats parked alongside each other and more stories that reconstruct a society on the edge of change. (USS475, $15.95)		   Wicked River, The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild
The Majesty of Natchez  •  Steven Brooke
HISTORY •  1999 •  HARD COVER  • 96 PAGES
This lively introduction to Natchez's well-preserved antebellum architecture includes a useful map, anecdotal histories and a number of excellent color photographs. Brooke is the recipient of the National Honor Award for Photography from the American Institute of Architects. (USS133, $17.95)		  
Deep South, Mississippi Valley, Gulf of Mexico Map  •  Hallwag
MAP
A map of the southern Mississippi Valley region of the United States at a scale of 1:1,200,000, including Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. With a gazetteer, national parks, and more detailed insets of major cities. One Side. 39x50 inches. (USS47, $14.95)		   Deep South, Mississippi Valley, Gulf of Mexico Map



Also Recommended

Jackson, Natchez and Vicksburg Map  •  Riley Maps    •  A regional map of Mississippi at scale of 1:50,000, covering Jackson, Natchez and Vicksburg. (USS403, $4.95)
 		  
Eyewitness Guide New Orleans  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This thorough, gorgeously illustrated guidebook provides a terrific introduction to the city and its many highlights (USS305, $20.00)
 		  
Frommer's Nashville & Memphis  •  Linda Romine   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive, practical guide to the region with excellent recommendations for hotels, restaurants and excursions. With two-color maps throughout. (USS441, $16.99)
 		  
Frommer's New Orleans Day by Day  •  Frommer's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This compact guide, ideal for a shorter visit, features excellent suggestions for everything from food, hotels and nightlife to neighborhood walks and shopping. With a foldout map. (USS462, $12.99)
 		  
Africans in America, America's Journey through Slavery  •  Charles Johnson  •  Patricia Smith  •  WBGH Series Research Team   • HISTORY  •  A powerful collaborative effort that paints a vivid picture of the history of slavery in America, and celebrates the brave Africans who managed to preserve their heritage as they endured so many hardships. (USS53, $38.95)
 		  
Coming Back, New Orleans Resurgent  •  Mario Tama   • HISTORY  •  Tama documents the city's struggle to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina in striking color photographs. With a forward by news anchor Anderson Cooper, who has devoted much time and energy to the Gulf Coast region. (USS496, $45.00)
 		  
Fabulous New Orleans  •  Lyle Saxon   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  First published in the 1920s, this charming book by local journalist and literary personality Lyle Saxon is a lovely, impressionistic chronicle of the city, its people and its culture. (USS01, $16.99)
 		  
Lost Plantations of the South  •  Marc R. Matrana   • HISTORY  •  Matrana weaves together photographs, diaries and letters to bring to life 60 great estates and the people who once called them home. (USS461, $40.00)
 		  
Rising Tide, The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America  •  John M. Barry   • HISTORY  •  A sweeping history of the devastating Mississippi flood of 1927, delving deeply into the race relations, agriculture and politics of the time. (USS48, $18.00)
 		  
The Beleaguered City, The Vicksburg Campaign  •  Shelby Foote   • HISTORY  •  Shelby Foote, a noted Civil War scholar, tells the engrossing narrative of the taking of Vicksburg in 1863 by Ulysses S. Grant and his Union troops. It was one of the pivotal battles of the Civil War, and distinguished Grant as a military genius. (USS51, $19.00)
 		  
The Civil War, A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, Red River to Appomattox  •  Shelby Foote   • HISTORY  •  This classic, three-volume collection documents the military and political battles of the Civil War. (USS116, $78.00)
 		  
The Civil War, An Illustrated History  •  Geoffrey C. Ward  •  Ken Burns   • HISTORY  •  An illustrated, comprehensive social history of the Civil War by the now-famous team of Ward and Burns. With 500 photographs and maps, extensive text and original essays by contributing experts. (USS27, $29.95)
 		  
The Devil's Backbone: Story of the Natchez Trace  •  Jonathan Daniels   • HISTORY  •  A brief, pocket history of the development, exploration and settling of the Natchez Trace, which stretches from Natchez, Mississippi, across northwestern Alabama to Nashville. (USS142, $12.95)
 		  
The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation  •  Stephen Ambrose  •  Douglas Brinkley   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This illustrated popular history -- and travelogue -- tells the story of the great river from the time of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. (USM110, $40.00)
 		  
The Mississippi Steamboat Era in Historic Photographs, Natchez to New Orleans, 1870-1920  •  Joan Gandy  •  Thomas Gandy   • HISTORY  •  An excellent collection of early steamboat photos. Images include steamboat exteriors, interiors, passengers, crew and river scenes. (USS184, $15.95)
 		  
The South in Modern America, A Region at Odds  •  Dewey Grantham   • HISTORY  •  A comprehensive, well researched survey of the South from the time of Reconstruction to the late 20th century. Grantham captures the politics, history, and psychology of the lower half of the country. (USS66, $24.95)
 		  
The World That Made New Orleans, From Spanish Silver to Congo Square  •  Ned Sublette   • HISTORY  •  Sublette (Cuba and its music) charts the remarkable story of New Orleans's first century from European colonization through the Haitian revolution (crucial to French and American negotiations over Louisiana). (USS498, $16.95)
 		  
Classic Natchez: An Illustrated Tour through a Remarkable Antebellum Town  •  Van J. Martin  •  Randolph Delehanty   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Antebellum South presented through photographs and essays on 43 Natchez homes, including maps, floor plans, and a timeline. (USS136, $39.95)
 		  
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta  •  Robert Palmer   • MUSIC  •  Palmer crafts an engaging, thoroughly interesting history of blues music, tracing it from its rural roots in the Mississippi Delta to great blues musicians like Muddy Waters and B.B. King. (USS396, $16.00)
 		  
Delta Blues, The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music  •  Ted Gioia   • MUSIC  •  From the field hollers of 19th-century plantations to Muddy Waters and B.B. King, Delta Blues delves into the uneasy mix of race and money at the point where traditional music became commercial and bluesmen found new audiences of thousands. (USS460, $17.95)
 		  
Elvis Presley, Memphis  •  Mark Bernardo   • MUSIC  •  Weaving the story of the King's personal and public life with detailed descriptions of the locations in Memphis that served as the setting for his musical education and evolution, this pop culture guide offers a refreshingly even-handed account of Elvis Presley's life. (USS492, $14.95)
 		  
It Came from Memphis  •  Robert Gordon   • MUSIC  •  This journalistic classic explores the burgeoning musical life of Memphis in the days before Elvis. A thrilling, colorful read. (USS501, $22.95)
 		  
Around the Bend, A Mississippi River Adventure  •  C.C. Lockwood   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A photographic tour of the Mississippi River as seen through the lens of naturalist and wildlife photographer C.C. Lockwood. (USS45, $39.95)
 		  
Bayou, Farewell  •  Mike Tidwell   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Tidwell introduces us to the food and the language, the shrimp fisherman, the Houma Indians, and the rich cultural history that makes Louisian's Cajun Coast unlike any other place. (USS491, $16.00)
 		  
Black Boy  •  Richard A. Wright  •  Jerry W. Ward   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The autobiography of Richard Wright, chronicling his days as a young black man in rural Mississippi and Memphis. It's a hard-hitting look at race relations in the United States before the civil rights era. (USS50, $14.99)
 		  
Louisiana Rambles  •  Ian McNulty   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The New Orleans journalist explores Cajun and Creole communities of south Louisiana in this engaging guide to the music, culture and pleasures of the region. (USS493, $22.00)
 		  
Mississippi Solo: A River Quest  •  Eddy L. Harris   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  From Minnesota to New Orleans, Harris travels the length of the Mississippi in a canoe, facing shotgun-wielding bigots, wild dogs and tumultuous waves, ultimately emerging with an unforgettable and engaging American memoir. (USS384, $16.00)
 		  
Old Glory, A Voyage Down the Mississippi  •  Jonathan Raban   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Raban tackles the "Mighty Mississippi" aboard a 16-foot motorboat in this entertaining portrait of contemporary life on the river, featuring places and people he encounters along the way from from Minnesota to Mississippi. (USS42, $18.00)
 		  
The Barber of Natchez  •  Edwin Adams Davis  •  William Ransom Hogan   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A vivid portrait of the life and times of the remarkable William Johnson, a free slave and successful businessman in Natchez, who writes of his family life, business successes and friendships with people of both races. Drawing on Johnson's diaries, letters and contemporary accounts. Johnson was murdered in 1851. (USS401, $19.95)
 		  
William Johnson's Natchez, The Ante-Bellum Diary of a Free Negro  •  Edwin Adam Davis  •  William Ransom Hogan   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The personal diary of William Johnson, a free Negro of Natchez, Mississippi. Discovered in 1938, this first person account reveals the hardship he endured as he went from a former slave to a successful businessman. (USS139, $34.95)
 		  
A Confederacy of Dunces  •  John Kennedy Toole   • LITERATURE  •  The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, drenched in New Orleans color and culture. Its sharp humor, combined with vivid local detail, makes it great reading for any visitor to New Orleans. (USS02, $15.00)
 		  
A Curtain of Green and Other Stories  •  Eudora Welty   • LITERATURE  •  Welty's first collection of stories, which includes the classic "A Worn Path," established her reputation as a leading southern writer. (USS402, $27.95)
 		  
Delta Wedding  •  Eudora Welty   • LITERATURE  •  An expertly written comedy about white southerners on the brink of marriage. (USS251, $14.00)
 		  
More of This World or Maybe Another  •  Barb Johnson   • LITERATURE  •  The gritty, dazzling debut collection by New Orleans writer and carpenter Johnson. These nine interconnected stories follow four unlikely friends through the backstreets of New Orleans. (USS471, $13.99)
 		  
Shiloh  •  Shelby Foote   • LITERATURE  •  Told through the perspectives of a diverse cast of soldiers, Foote's brilliant novel transports the reader to Pittsburgh Landing, Tennessee. (USS71, $15.00)
 		  
The Awakening  •  Kate Chopin  •  Marilynne Robinson   • LITERATURE  •  The 1899 novel that forever vanquished "feminine propriety." Chopin's exhilarating, tragic feminist novella sings with the Cajun and Creole cadences of her native New Orleans. (USS229, $4.95)
 		  
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty  •  Eudora Welty   • LITERATURE  •  All the stories written by Welty, the pride of Jackson, Mississippi, in a single volume. (USS250, $16.00)
 		  
The Confidence-Man, His Masquerade  •  Herman Melville   • LITERATURE  •  Melville's final work of prose, a bewildering story of the Devil and his attempt to con a group of travelers aboard a riverboat on the Mississippi. (USS44, $14.00)
 		  
The Heaven of Mercury  •  Brad Watson   • LITERATURE  •  Set in the fictional town of Mercury, Mississippi native Watson's compelling first novel follows the life and unrequited love of local newspaper editor Finus Bates, evoking changes along the Gulf Coast over the course of the 20th century. (USS495, $17.95)
 		  
The Moviegoer  •  Walker Percy   • LITERATURE  •  Walker Percy won the 1961 National Book Award for this novel, his masterpiece, which unfolds in New Orleans during a momentous Carnival week. It's a great book that we can recommend as much for its sheer readability as for its palpable sense of place. (USS249, $14.95)
 		  
The Quiet Game  •  Greg Iles   • LITERATURE  •  A murder mystery set in Natchez, Mississippi. (USS141, $9.99)
 		  
Yonder Stands Your Orphan  •  Barry Hannah   • LITERATURE  •  A dazzling Gothic novel of the Deep South, bursting with eccentric, deeply confused characters, humor and pain. Set near Vicksburg, Mississippi. (USS232, $14.95)
 		  
The Big Muddy  •  Christopher Morris   • NATURAL HISTORY • COMING IN AUGUST  •  A landmark environmental history of the Mississippi, illuminating the disastrous impact of human exploitation of the region. (USS502, $35.00)
 		  
The Control of Nature  •  John McPhee   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  In the classic McPhee tradition, these sparkling essays explore our generally feeble attempts to combat all-powerful nature, including valient efforts by Icelanders to control the flow of a volcano across the harbor at Heimaey in the Westman Islands. (NAT01, $16.00)
 		  
National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southeastern States  •  Peter Alden   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact photographic guide to the nature of the Southeast States from Mississippi and Georgia to North Carolina, featuring 1,500 photographs, concise descriptions and an overview of the natural history of the area. (USS31, $19.95)
 		  
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America  •  Jon Dunn   • FIELD GUIDE  •  From Alaska to Baja California, Nova Scotia and Florida, this guide is the veteran's choice for birding anywhere in the United States. Tabbed for easy access, the color range maps in this sixth edition are outstanding. (FG09, $27.95)
 		  
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America  •  David Sibley   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact, geographically specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird. (USW418, $19.95)
 		  
 
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