http://wendykeithdesigns.co.uk/wp-content/cong.php I don’t know quite what to make of Paul Theroux. I think his resume is very interesting – a Peace Corps volunteer who taught in Malawi (falling afoul of the mad Classicist-Dictator Hastings Banda and getting kicked out of the country), teaching for a few more years before getting a book published and then winning […]
Tag Archives: Mississippi
Paul Theroux’s Deep South.
30-Nov-15Distributaries.
22-Jun-14purchase disulfiram Heading back to New Orleans from the Atchafalaya I spoke with Randy about the possibility of the Corps opening distributaries from the Mississippi in order to build the coastline back up. The way he spoke had been encouraging. He spoke of the current model – channeling the river so it flows fast and deep straight […]
Francis Parkman.
02-Apr-14I’ve been reading Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi – which is superb – and I have been amazed by the sparkling little gems of prose which Twain culled from Parkman. I provide a sample, La Salle’s entering the Gulf of Mexico: And now they neared their journey’s end. On the 6th of April, the […]
The things you find out.
19-Mar-11Looking at the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers from Cairo, Illinois, the thing which impressed me was how giant the Ohio was; it is an extremely impressive river in its lower reaches. And looking it up, I discovered that it is, in fact, the larger stream at the juncture. By traditional standards – meaning considering the […]
The Mississippi.
18-Mar-11I drove up the Mississippi from New Orleans to Dallas City (Illinois) in two days, making stops in Vicksburg, Greenville, Clarksdale, Cairo, Hannibal, Carthage, and Nauvoo. This brief taste has whetted my appetite to bike the whole river. I had thought that such a trip might be boring: a river trip does not offer the […]