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Life on the Mississippi (AmazonClassics Edition)

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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. Mississippi Biographies & Memoirs Cultural & Regional Witty
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Real classic told with great flair and attention to how the author wrote. I think all ages will always love this tale and this audio version is fantastic.

As good as it gets

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very enjoyable fascinating to follow his life and the changes and development of the country in the 1850s though the 1880s

His best work

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Very enjoyable. Learning about navigating the Mississippi, in a steamboat, was great fun. I look forward to reading Mark Twain’s literature through out the year. 📖 📚 📕

Quite a Travel Log 🛶

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The narrator mispronounced Cairo, Illinois through the whole thing. It’s Karo, like the syrup, not Cairo, like Egypt.

Fine, but one big flaw

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