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Life on the Mississippi is a powerful narrative concerning the past, present, and future of the Mississippi River, including its towns, peoples, and ways of life. The narrative is written by Mark Twain, whose real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Twain explains in the narrative how he “stole” this nickname from an old steamboat captain who ...
Oct 12, 2022 · Audio CD. $34.59 7 Used from $28.77 12 New from $30.37. 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 ...
About Life on the Mississippi. At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twain’s early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Mar 27, 2012 · Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, Authors, American, River boats, River life, Steamboats Publisher Boston : James R. Osgood Collection docsouth; unclibraries; americana Contributor University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Language English
LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. CHAPTER I. THE RIVER AND ITS HISTORY. THE Mississippi is well worth reading about. It is not a commonplace river, but on the contrary is in all ways remarkable. Considering the Missouri its main branch, it is the longest river in the world--four thousand three hundred VIEW ON THE RIVER.
Mark Twain. Harper, 1899 - Mississippi River - 465 pages. A memoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. The first half details a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541 and describes Twain's career as a Mississippi steamboat pilot, the fulfillment of a childhood dream.
Jun 25, 2019 · Life on the Mississippi may at first seem strange: bits of history, geology and folklore all mixed up and told with Twain’s characteristically sardonic wit. But then you realize that Twain crafted a new literary form: while telling the story of his youthful and mature travels along the river he is actually making you feel like you’re on a ...
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