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High Water

Richard Pike Bissell

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Description:Duke Snyder found his first job on 'a dirty old cinder-throwing stern-wheeler' when he was 16 years old with just 65 cents left in his pocket and nothing else to do. Ten years later, he’s still on the river aboard an old diesel towboat hauling eight barges of coal toward the Chain of Rocks above St. Louis with all hands on deck facing the ominous rise of high water. As the waters of the Mississippi rise to alarming levels, Bissell takes us aboard the steamboat with Duke, now first mate, and captains, Ironhat and Casey, engineer, Greasecup, and crew members Arkansaw, the Kid, ole Swede, One Eye, and Zero. Embraced by rain and fog and night is as black as ' the inside of a Holstein heifer', we learn about the lives of the crew, past and present, losses, loves, strengths and flaws, and are caught up in the flood of their lives much like the swell of the raging river.Bissell loved river life and spent much of his time on a towboat on the Mississippi.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with High Water. To get started finding High Water, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 218

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Release: 1954

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Description: Duke Snyder found his first job on 'a dirty old cinder-throwing stern-wheeler' when he was 16 years old with just 65 cents left in his pocket and nothing else to do. Ten years later, he’s still on the river aboard an old diesel towboat hauling eight barges of coal toward the Chain of Rocks above St. Louis with all hands on deck facing the ominous rise of high water. As the waters of the Mississippi rise to alarming levels, Bissell takes us aboard the steamboat with Duke, now first mate, and captains, Ironhat and Casey, engineer, Greasecup, and crew members Arkansaw, the Kid, ole Swede, One Eye, and Zero. Embraced by rain and fog and night is as black as ' the inside of a Holstein heifer', we learn about the lives of the crew, past and present, losses, loves, strengths and flaws, and are caught up in the flood of their lives much like the swell of the raging river.Bissell loved river life and spent much of his time on a towboat on the Mississippi.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with High Water. To get started finding High Water, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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