Life on the Mississippi (1883) (Oxford Mark Twain)
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Part travel book, part autobiography, and part social commentary, Life on the Mississippi is a memoir of the cub pilot's apprenticeship, a record of Twain's return to the river and to Hannibal as an adult, a meditation on the harsh vagaries of nature, and a study of the varied and sometimes violent activities engaged in by those who live on the river's shores. As Willie Morris notes in hi... More
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Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
Binding | Hardcover (202 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 720 |
ISBN-10 | 0195101391 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0195101393 |
Publication Date | 12/05/1996 |
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About Willie Morris (Introduction) : Willie Morris is a published author of children's books. Some of the published credits of Willie Morris include Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood, Prayer for the Opening of the Little League Season.
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