Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War published in 1883.

I'm the man with a petrified heart and biler-iron bowels! The massacre of isolated communities is the pastime of my idle moments, the destruction of ...

Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's memoir of his early life learning to be a pilot on a Mississippi River Boat during the glory days of those crafts.

61 quotes from Life on the Mississippi: 'Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.'

At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twain's early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and ...

Twain's powerful, humorous and honest account of a forgotten way of life. (Item #5230) Life on the Mississippi. Mark Twain, Samuel L. Twain, Mark [Samuel L.

"Life on the Mississippi" is a memoir by Mark Twain that recounts his experiences as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War.

A brilliant amalgam of remembrance and reportage, by turns satiric, celebratory, nostalgic, and melancholy, Life on the Mississippi (1883) evokes the great ...

Mississippi, boiling and surging and sweeping in its course logs, branches, and uprooted trees." This was the mouth of the Missouri, "that savage river," which ...