Life on the Mississippi, Part 2.Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi, Part 2.
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Original author: Mark Twain
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"Life on the Mississippi, Part 2." by Mark Twain is a memoir and travel book published in 1883. This work combines Twain's recollections of his youth as a steamboat pilot apprentice on the Mississippi River before the Civil War with his observations from a return journey years later. He chronicles his training under experienced pilot Horace Bixby, the art of navigating the ever-changing river, and contrasts the romantic steamboat era with a modernizing America transformed by railroads and urban growth.
Life on the Mississippi, Part 2., by Mark Twain. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #8472.
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