Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain
Type
Label
Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain
Language
eng
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Life on the Mississippi
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
872368918
Responsibility statement
Mark Twain
Summary
Before his literary career took off and he emerged as one of America's foremost men of letters, Mark Twain worked as a steamboat pilot in the antebellum South and Midwest. This fascinating account offers a brief history of commercial boating in the period and a probing, insightful, and eminently entertaining look at Twain's own experiences
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Subject
- Biographies
- Authors, American + Homes and haunts
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Homes and haunts -- Mississippi River Valley
- Mississippi River -- Description and travel
- Mississippi River Valley -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
- Intellectual life
- Travel
- Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs
- Pilots and pilotage
- Mississippi River Valley
- Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
- Authors, American
- Pilots and pilotage -- Mississippi River
- Electronic books
- 1800-1899
- Manners and customs
- Steamboats -- Mississippi River
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- Mississippi River Valley
- Steamboats
- Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Mississippi River Valley
- Mississippi River
- Homes
Content
Author
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- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject23
- Biographies
- Authors, American + Homes and haunts
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Homes and haunts -- Mississippi River Valley
- Mississippi River -- Description and travel
- Mississippi River Valley -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
- Intellectual life
- Travel
- Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs
- Pilots and pilotage
- Mississippi River Valley
- Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
- Authors, American
- Pilots and pilotage -- Mississippi River
- Electronic books
- 1800-1899
- Manners and customs
- Steamboats -- Mississippi River
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- Mississippi River Valley
- Steamboats
- Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Mississippi River Valley
- Mississippi River
- Homes
- Content1
- Author1
- Mapped to1