Ode on the Source of the Mississippi

The Discovery of the Source of the Missi

The Discovery of the Source of the Mississippi

✍ GANNETT, HENRY 📂 Article 📅 1886 🏛 Nature Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 137 KB

Life on the Mississippi

✍ Twain, Mark 📂 Fiction 🏛 Electronic Text Center. University of Virginia Lib 🌐 English ⚖ 257 KB

nonfiction , prose

Life on the Mississippi

✍ Mark Twain 📂 Fiction 📅 2007;2000 🏛 Random House Publishing Group;Modern Library 🌐 en-US ⚖ 355 KB 👁 3 views

'I am a person who would quit authorizing in a minute to go to piloting,' Mark Twain once remarked. 'I would rather sink a steamboat than eat, any time.' And in 1882, Twain did just that: he returned to the river of his youth as a mature writer determined to expand seven articles which he had serial

Life on The Mississippi

✍ Mark Twain 📂 Fiction 📅 2011;2009 🏛 Penguin USA, Inc.;Signet Classics 🌐 English ⚖ 351 KB 👁 3 views

At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twains 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.

Life On The Mississippi

✍ Mark Twain 📂 Fiction 📅 1883 🏛 Feedbooks 🌐 English ⚖ 277 KB 👁 3 views

Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before and after the American Civil War. The book begins with a brief history of the river. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot, as the 'cub' of an expe

Life on The Mississippi

✍ Mark Twain 📂 Fiction 📅 2011;2009 🏛 Penguin USA, Inc.;Signet Classics 🌐 English ⚖ 351 KB 👁 3 views

At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twains 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.