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  • Life on the Mississippi (AmazonClassics Edition)

  • By: Mark Twain
  • Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
  • Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Summary

Told in the unmistakable voice of America’s immortal storyteller, this chronicle of a vanishing past is a tale of two journeys. The first is that of Samuel Clemens, young antebellum-era steamboat pilot who navigates wide-eyed passengers on the Mississippi. And the second tells of a reflective Mark Twain. He’d return, years later, to observe the inevitable and dismaying post-Civil War developments along the currents of the ever-changing Great River.

Combining history, travelogue, and memoir, and sketched with humor and some likely tall tales, Life on the Mississippi offers insight into the making of Mark Twain, and a life that inspired his greatest novels.

Revised edition: Previously published as Life on the Mississippi, this edition of Life on the Mississippi (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.
Public Domain (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
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wonderful lesson of understanding the Mississipi

Thoughorly enjoyable story of the vagueries of Piloting a steamboat on the Mississipi, with particular learning of the SHAPE of the River

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