Life on the Mississippi / Mark Twain ; afterword by Lafcadio Hearn.
This is Mark Twain's humorous and poetic evocation of the history of the river. He recounts his years as a boy during the heyday of the steamboat era, the fulfillment of his dream of becoming a steamboat pilot, and above all, his love for the river. It also records his return to the Mississippi two decades later, to a way of life that had all but passed.
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- ISBN: 0895772752
- ISBN: 9780895772756
- Physical Description: 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- The River and Its History -- The River and Its Explorers -- Frescoes from the Past -- The Boys' Ambition -- I Want to Be a Cub Pilot -- A Cub Pilot's Experience -- A Daring Deed -- Perplexing Lessons -- Continued Perplexities -- Completing My Education -- The River Rises -- Sounding -- A Pilot's Needs -- Rank and Dignity of Piloting -- The Pilots' Monopoly -- Racing Days -- Cutoffs and Stephen -- I Take a Few Extra Lessons -- Brown and I Exchange Compliments -- A Catastrophe -- A Section in My Biography -- I Return to My Muttons -- Traveling Incognito -- My Incognito is Exploded -- From Cairo to Hickman -- Under Fire -- Some Imported Articles -- Uncle Mumford Unloads -- A Few Specimen Bricks -- Sketches by the Way -- A Thumbprint and What Came Of It -- The Disposal of a Bonanza -- Refreshments and Ethics -- Tough Yarns -- Vicksburg During the Trouble -- The Professor's Yarn -- the End of the "Gold Dust" -- The House Beautiful -- Manufactures and Miscreants -- Castles and Culture -- The Metropolis of the South -- Hygiene and Sentiment -- The Art of Inhumation -- City Sights -- Southern Sports -- Enchantments and Enchanters -- "Uncle Remus" and Mr. Cable -- Sugar and Postage -- Episodes in Pilot Life -- The "Original Jacobs" -- Reminiscences -- A Burning Brand -- My Boyhood Home -- Past and Present -- A Vendetta and Other Things -- A Question of Law -- An Archangel -- On the Upper River -- Legends and Scenery -- Speculations and Conclusions
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- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 > Travel > Mississippi River.
Authors, American > 19th century > Biography.
Pilots and pilotage > Mississippi River.
Mississippi River > Description and travel.
Mississippi River Valley > Social life and customs. - Genre:
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