Life on the Mississippi

Before he became a literary icon, Mark Twain was a steamboat pilot—and this is the journey that shaped him.Life on the Mississippi is Twain''s vivid memoir of life along America''s greatest river. Blending travelogue, history, personal reflection, and storytelling, Twain brings to life the gritty, romantic, and dangerous world of 19th-century riverboats and frontier towns.From his boyhood dreams t...