Life on the Mississippi, Part 4 (Esprios Classics) - Twain, Mark
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Life on the Mississippi (1883) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. It is also a travel book, recounting his trip up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Saint Paul many years after the war. The book begins with a brief history of the river as reported by Europeans and Americans, beginning with the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1542. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot, as the 'cub' (apprentice) of an experienced pilot, Horace E. Bixby. He describes, with great affection,…mehr

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Life on the Mississippi (1883) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. It is also a travel book, recounting his trip up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Saint Paul many years after the war. The book begins with a brief history of the river as reported by Europeans and Americans, beginning with the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1542. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot, as the 'cub' (apprentice) of an experienced pilot, Horace E. Bixby. He describes, with great affection, the science of navigating the ever-changing Mississippi River in a section that was first published in 1876, entitled "Old Times on the Mississippi".
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Mark Twain (1835-1910), all'anagrafe Samuel Langhorne Clemens, è stato uno scrittore, umorista e conferenziere americano noto per la sua arguzia e per la vivida rappresentazione della vita americana del XIX secolo. È considerato uno dei più grandi autori americani. Le opere di Twain esplorano spesso temi quali razza, società e moralità. I suoi romanzi più famosi sono Le avventure di Tom Sawyer e Le avventure di Huckleberry Finn, considerati dei capolavori della letteratura americana.