The amazing voyage of the New Orleans

By Judith St George

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Steamboats, Roosevelt, nicholas j., 1767-1854, Earthquakes, Earthquakes, juvenile literature, Description and travel, Mississippi river, juvenile literature, Roosevelt, nicholas j., 1767-1864, juvenile literature, Mississippi river valley, juvenile literature, Steamboats and steamboat lines, juvenile literature, New Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-1812, Mississippi river, New Orleans (Steamboat)

Description: Recounts the voyage in 1811 of the "New Orleans," the first steamboat to travel down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, a trip fraught with dangers including North America's most violent earthquake.