Shared summer reading at my library

Mississippi Solo ~ by Eddy L. Harris, 1988, memoir, 256 pages

Eddy Harris, the author of Mississippi Solo, is a St. Louis native. The book blends memoir, travel narrative, and cultural insight as it explores life along the river.  In this exciting classic, readers follow an adventurer whose lifelong dream is to canoe the length of this mighty river, from Minnesota to New Orleans.

The trip's dangers were legion for a Black man traveling alone, paddling from "where there ain't no black folks to where they still don't like us much."  Barge waves loom large, wild dogs roam the wooded shores, and, in the Arkansas dusk, two shotgun-toting bigots nearly bring the author's dream to a bloody end.

Sustaining him through the hard weeks of paddling were the hundreds of people who reached out to share a small piece of his challenge.  This is an unforgettable story of a man testing his own limits.

Week in Review

• My Monday post featured cats, HERE.
• Cats and water may not mix, but my next post, HERE, was about a boat sinking into the water.

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