Offers a history of the river, describes Twain's experiences as a riverboat pilot, and shares tall tales, character sketches, and observations about the Mississippi, in a new edition of the Twain classic, which is accompanied by a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Justin Kaplan. Reissue.
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Part travel book, part autobiography, and part social commentary, Life on the Mississippi is a memoir of the cub pilot's apprenticeship, a record of Twain's return to the river and to Hannibal as an adult, a meditation on the harsh vagaries of nature, and a study of the varied and sometimes violent activities engaged in by those who live on the river's shores.
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- PublisherSignet Classics
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0451528174
- ISBN 13 9780451528179
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages384
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