Floodtide Author:Frank Yerby Born in a shack on Natchez-Under-the-Hill, the abode of cutthroats, thieves, brawling river men and ladies of easy virtue, Ross Pary, when he returned from abroad in 1850, had one goal that loomed as large as the horizon: to reach Natchez-on-the-Hill, where gentlemen planters lived in porticoed mansions with their ladies, in a life of graciousne... more »ss and ease, attended by swarms of liveried slaves. In measurable space, it was less than a mile between these two worlds of Natche, but in terms of human achievement, it could be attained only by a climber who refused to recognize its impossibility....« less