Voices on the River: 22 Days on the Delta Queen
Brown, Dennis In October 1986, author Dennis Brown -- after having spent seven years as a publicist at CBS Entertainment in New York City -- returned to mid-America to travel on the iconic Delta Queen steamboat. His account of three weeks of leisurely cruising on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers -- first, east from St. Louis to Pittsburgh, then south to New Orleans -- is an evocative time capsule that carries the reader back to a nostalgic world when, as Gra...