Flatboats were once the most common craft on America's great rivers, but when Rinker Buck took his down the Monongahela, Ohio, and Mississippi to New Orleans in 2016--as he recounts in this audiobook--it was an object of considerable curiosity. Narrated by Jason Culp, his story of that trip weaves together the history of America and the towns along the rivers, as well as the... Read More

In 1966 Rinker and Kern Buck, two teenaged brothers from New Jersey, flew a Piper Cub airplane across the country. As a journalist, Rinker Buck had plenty of opportunity to chronicle the flight, but he declined until his own daughter's interest in flying spurred him to this chronicle. He recounts, not only the flight, but the break the brothers made from their charismatic,... Read More