Life on the Mississippi.
Title:
Life on the Mississippi.
Author:
Twain, Mark.
ISBN:
9781776518036
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (499 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- The 'Body of the Nation' -- Chapter 1 - The River and its History -- Chapter 2 - The River and its Explorers -- Chapter 3 - Frescoes from the Past -- Chapter 4 - The Boys' Ambition -- Chapter 5 - I Want to Be a Cub-Pilot -- Chapter 6 - A Cub-Pilot's Experience -- Chapter 7 - A Daring Deed -- Chapter 8 - Perplexing Lessons -- Chapter 9 - Continued Perplexities -- Chapter 10 - Completing My Education -- Chapter 11 - The River Rises -- Chapter 12 - Sounding -- Chapter 13 - A Pilot's Needs -- Chapter 14 - Rank and Dignity of Piloting -- Chapter 15 - The Pilots' Monopoly -- Chapter 16 - Racing Days -- Chapter 17 - Cut-Offs and Stephen -- Chapter 18 - I Take a Few Extra Lessons -- Chapter 19 - Brown and I Exchange Compliments -- Chapter 20 - A Catastrophe -- Chapter 21 - A Section in My Biography -- Chapter 22 - I Return to My Muttons -- Chapter 23 - Traveling Incognito -- Chapter 24 - My Incognito is Exploded -- Chapter 25 - From Cairo to Hickman -- Chapter 26 - Under Fire -- Chapter 27 - Some Imported Articles -- Chapter 28 - Uncle Mumford Unloads -- Chapter 29 - A Few Specimen Bricks -- Chapter 30 - Sketches by the Way -- Chapter 31 - A Thumb-Print and What Came of It -- Chapter 32 - The Disposal of a Bonanza -- Chapter 33 - Refreshments and Ethics -- Chapter 34 - Tough Yarns -- Chapter 35 - Vicksburg During the Trouble -- Chapter 36 - The Professor's Yarn -- Chapter 37 - The End of the 'Gold Dust' -- Chapter 38 - The House Beautiful -- Chapter 39 - Manufactures and Miscreants -- Chapter 40 - Castles and Culture -- Chapter 41 - The Metropolis of the South -- Chapter 42 - Hygiene and Sentiment -- Chapter 43 - The Art of Inhumation -- Chapter 44 - City Sights -- Chapter 45 - Southern Sports -- Chapter 46 - Enchantments and Enchanters -- Chapter 47 - Uncle Remus and Mr. Cable -- Chapter 48 - Sugar and Postage.
Chapter 49 - Episodes in Pilot Life -- Chapter 50 - The 'Original Jacobs' -- Chapter 51 - Reminiscences -- Chapter 52 - A Burning Brand -- Chapter 53 - My Boyhood's Home -- Chapter 54 - Past and Present -- Chapter 55 - A Vendetta and Other Things -- Chapter 56 - A Question of Law -- Chapter 57 - An Archangel -- Chapter 58 - On the Upper River -- Chapter 59 - Legends and Scenery -- Chapter 60 - Speculations and Conclusions -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Endnotes.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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