359 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 2001 by Signet Classic.
Life on the Mississippi
by Mark Twain
3 stars
(8 reviews)
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.
Subjects
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- Mississippi River
- Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
- Pilots and pilotage -- Mississippi River
- Steamboats -- Mississippi River
- Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs
- Mississippi River -- Description and travel