Life on the Mississippi, Part 2. by Mark Twain

"Life on the Mississippi, Part 2." by Mark Twain is a memoir and travel book published in 1883. This work combines Twain's recollections of his youth as a steamboat pilot apprentice on the Mississippi River before the Civil War with his observations from a return journey years later. He chronicles his training under experienced pilot Horace Bixby, the art of navigating the ever-changing river, and contrasts the romantic steamboat era with a modernizing America transformed by railroads and urban growth. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Title Life on the Mississippi, Part 2.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_the_Mississippi
Credits Produced by David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 77.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Mississippi River -- Description and travel
Subject Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Subject Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
Subject Pilots and pilotage -- Mississippi River
Subject Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- Mississippi River
Category Text
EBook-No. 8472
Release Date
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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