Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_the_Mississippi

Release date is 2004-07-10

Produced by David Widger

"Life on the Mississippi, Part 12." by Mark Twain is a memoir published in 1883. This work combines Twain's recollections of his youth as a steamboat pilot's apprentice on the Mississippi River before the Civil War with his later travel observations. He chronicles the art of navigating the ever-changing river, his training under experienced pilot Horace Bixby, and his post-war journeys from St. Louis to New Orleans and beyond, documenting how railroads and modern cities transformed the landscape he once knew. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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