Life on the Mississippi
New York : Oxford Unviversity Press, 1996.
Format: Book
Description: lii, 624 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Part travel book, part autobiography, and part social commentary, Life on the Mississippi is a memoir of the cub pilot's apprenticeship, a record of Twain's return to the river and to Hannibal as an adult, a meditation on the harsh vagaries of nature, and a study of the varied and sometimes violent activities engaged in by those who live on the river's shores. As Willie Morris notes in his introduction, it "is written with the flamboyance and affecting precision of a craftsman." Life on the Mississippi explores how a child learns to be an adult, and how an adult learns to understand what it was to be a child. It is a book about the South, about memory, about change, and, of course, about the Mississippi River and the world through which it snakes. "When the life of the river is rendered with Twain's brand of wry skepticism," writes Lawrence Howe in his afterword, "the Mississippi is, indeed, well worth reading about."
Series: Oxford Mark Twain.
Subjects:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Homes and haunts -- Mississippi River Valley.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- Mississippi River Valley.
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs.
Mississippi River -- Description and travel.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Homes and haunts -- Mississippi River Valley.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- Mississippi River Valley.
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs.
Mississippi River -- Description and travel.
ISBN:
0195101391
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Includes bibliographical references.