624 pages
English language
Published Dec. 18, 2010 by Oxford Unviversity Press.
4 stars
(2 reviews)
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
- Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910 -- Homes and haunts -- Mississippi River Valley
- Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910 -- Travel -- Mississippi River Valley
- Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Mississippi River Valley
- Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
- Pilots and pilotage -- Mississippi River
- Mississippi River Valley -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
- Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs
- Mississippi River -- Description and travel