The Monongahela An American Rivers book【電子書籍】[ Richard Bissell ]

＜p＞If anyone had told me I’d be entranced by a book about coal boats moving thirty million tons of coal down the Monongahela River during the 1940’s, well, I would have thought you’d lost your coal stones. I guffawed my way through the first chapter and was pinned to the pages from thereon in. Richard Bissell has artfully intertwined his experiences as a pilot on the Coal Queen with historical facts and anecdotes about the boats and men who made the Monongahela River in West Virginia into one of America’s greatest workhorses. “In order to have a river in your blood, unforgettably and forever. . . . You've got to eat it, sleep it, hate it, and breathe it until you've got river in your shoe soles and in your pants pockets.” Fill up your pockets and read on, reader.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The reader will be hooked from the first page as the author launches into describing riverboat life, early settlement of the region, the dust and sweat of coal mining, almost everything you’d ever want to know about ste．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る