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Life Between the Levees - America's Riverboat Pilots (Hardcover)
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Life Between the Levees - America's Riverboat Pilots (Hardcover)
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Life Between the Levees is a chronicle of first-person reflections
and folklore from pilots who have dedicated their lives to the
river. The stories are as diverse as the storytellers themselves,
and the volume is full of drama, suspense, and a way of life a
"landlubber" could never imagine. Although waterways and ports in
the Mississippi corridor move billions of dollars of products
throughout the US and foreign markets, in today's world those who
live and work on land have little knowledge of the river and the
people who work there. In ten years of interviewing, Melody Golding
collected over one hundred personal narratives from men and women
who worked and lived on "brown water," our inland waterways. As
photographer, she has taken thousands of photos, of which 130 are
included, of the people and boats, and the rivers where they spend
their time. The book spans generations of river life-the oldest
pilot was born in 1917 and the youngest in 1987-and includes
stories from the 1920s to today. The stories begin with the pilots
who were "broke in" by early steamboat pilots who were on the river
as far back as the late 1800s. The early pilots in this book
witnessed the transition from steamboat to diesel boat, while the
youngest grew up in the era of GPS and twenty-first-century
technology. Among many topics, the pilots reflect movingly on the
time spent away from home because of their career, a universal
reality for all mariners. As many pilots say when they talk about
the river, ""I hate her when I'm with her, and I miss her when I'm
gone.
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