Life on the Mississippi
About this book
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
- american authors
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- american humorists
- americans
- authors, american
- authors, biography
- balloon ascensions
- biography
- biography & autobiography
- businessmen
- childhood and youth
- classic literature
- description and travel
- fiction
- historical fiction
- history
- homes and haunts
- human beings
- imperialism
- intellectual life
- journeys
- juvenile literature
- kings and rulers
- knights and knighthood
- large type books
- legislators
- manners and customs
- mind and body
- mississippi river -- description and travel.
- mississippi river, description and travel
- mississippi river valley, description and travel
- mississippi river valley, social life and customs
- mistaken identity
- nonfiction
- open library staff picks
- philosophical anthropology
- philosophy of mind
- pilots and pilotage
- political corruption
- political fiction
- river boats
- river life
- social life and customs
- speculation
- steamboats
- tom sawyer (fictitious character)
- travel
- twain, mark, 1835-1910
- voyages around the world
- walking