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Life on the Mississippi
Before his literary career took off and he emerged as one of America's foremost men of letters, Mark Twain worked as a steamboat pilot in the antebellum South and Midwest. This fascinating account offers a brief history of commercial boating in the period and a probing, insightful, and eminently entertaining look at Twain's own experiences.
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- ISBN: 9781620119266
- ISBN: 1620119269
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: [Garfield Heights, Ohio] : Duke Classics, [2012]
- Copyright: ©1883
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Before his literary career took off and he emerged as one of America's foremost men of letters, Mark Twain worked as a steamboat pilot in the antebellum South and Midwest. This fascinating account offers a brief history of commercial boating in the period and a probing, insightful, and eminently entertaining look at Twain's own experiences.