A modern-day Huck Finn, Rinker Buck returns to chronicle his latest incredible adventure: building a wooden flatboat from the bygone era of the early 1800s and journeying down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. 

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Buck casts off down the river on the flatboat Patience accompanied by an eccentric crew of daring shipmates. 

 

As he charts his own journey, he also delivers a richly satisfying work of history that brings to life a lost era.