Life on the Mississippi
by Mark Twain
- Length
- 68 mornings, about 2,100 words a reading
About the book
Life on the Mississippi is part memoir, part history and part travel book by Mark Twain, published in 1883. Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, on the river’s west bank, and trained as a steamboat pilot in the years before the Civil War. His pen name comes from the leadsman’s call for two fathoms of water. The chapters on his training first ran as a magazine series in 1875. In 1882 he went back to the river after twenty-one years away, and that trip supplied the rest of the book.
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