Life on the Mississippi / by Mark Twain.
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TextSeries: Kennebec large print perennial favorites collectionPublication details: Waterville, Me. : Kennebec Large Print, 2009.Edition: Large print edDescription: 629 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 1410420051 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 9781410420053 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 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
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Large Print Book
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Main Library | Large Print NonFiction | 917.7 T969 | Available | 33111006269803 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Life on the Mississippi provided the inspiration for Mark Twain's masterpiece, Huckleberry Finn, and earned the author his first recognition as a serious writer.Raised in the river town of Hannibal, Missouri, Mark Twain dreamed of becoming a river pilot. In the first half of Life on the Mississippi, Twain describes his eventual apprenticeship as a river pilot and the vitality of life in the steamboat era. In the second half of the book, Twain records his return after the Civil War and the railroads had stripped the river of its romance.
Originally published: New York : Signet, 1883.