The Great River

The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

Forthcoming: 2024

To be published on 6.11.24 by W.W. Norton, The Great River tells the story of the Mississippi River — what it was and what it is.

The book combines Boyce’s writing, based on ten years of research and travel on the Mississippi, with Liz’s cartography to tell the story of the country’s largest river at sweeping new scale.

“The tangle of water that we know as the Mississippi River has borne many names through the years…”

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