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Rinker Buck (December 29, 1950) is an American author who is best known for his 1997 memoir Flight of Passage.
Rinker Buck began his career in journalism at the Berkshire Eagle and was a longtime staff writer for the Hartford Courant. He has written for Vanity Fair, New York, Life, and many other publications, and his stories have won the Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award and the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award.
Rinker Buck, author of The Oregon Trail and Flight of Passage.
Escaping the ordinary: A Q&A with author and adventurer Rinker Buck. In his new book, Buck sails a flatboat down the Mississippi River and has all kinds of adventures.
In “Life on the Mississippi,” Rinker Buck takes a lengthy river trip to examine a uniquely American history.
Rinker Buck began his career in journalism at the Berkshire Eagle and was a longtime staff writer for the Hartford Courant. He has written for Vanity Fair, N...
The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker Buck, Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand “flatboat era” of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River, illuminating the forgotten past of America’s first western frontier.
In his latest book, Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure (Avid Reader Press, Aug. 9), the author chronicles his voyage down the Mississippi River to New Orleans aboard Patience, a 19 th -century-style flatboat he built with the help of friends and an eccentric boat-builder.
Fifteen year old Rinker Buck is the first person narrator and navigator. Seventeen year old Kernahan Buck is the pilot. Rink is the outgoing, self-confident high school jock and all around mischief maker.
A renowned American journalist and author of memoirs, Rinker Buck is well known for his interesting and informative work. Keeping readers engaged from all over the world, his writing is non-fiction, charting his real-life exploits, following them in a fun and compelling manner.