Old Times on the Mississippi
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Mississippi River |
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Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Mississippi River |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2015-12-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781522701729 |
Old Times on the Mississippi is a non-fiction work by Mark Twain. It was published in 1876. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel." Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. After an apprenticeship with a printer, he worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to the newspaper of his older brother, Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his singular lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. In 1865, his humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," was published, based on a story he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention, and was even translated into classic Greek. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.
Author | : Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Byron Merrick |
Publisher | : Cleveland, O. : A.H. Clark Company, 1909 [c1908] |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN | : |
Originally published: [Cleveland, OH]: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1909.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : Delphi Classics |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2017-07-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1786568225 |
This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Old Times on the Mississippi’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Mark Twain’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Twain includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘Old Times on the Mississippi’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Twain’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
Author | : Calvin R. Fremling |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2004-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780299202941 |
This engaging and well-illustrated primer to the Upper Mississippi River presents the basic natural and human history of this magnificent waterway. Immortal River is written for the educated lay-person who would like to know more about the river's history and the forces that shape as well as threaten it today. It melds complex information from the fields of geology, ecology, geography, anthropology, and history into a readable, chronological story that spans some 500 million years of the earth's history. Like the Mississippi itself, Immortal River often leaves the main channel to explore the river's backwaters, floodplain, and drainage basin. The book's focus is the Upper Mississippi, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Cairo, Illinois. But it also includes information about the river's headwaters in northern Minnesota and about the Lower Mississippi from Cairo south to the river's mouth ninety miles below New Orleans. It offers an understanding of the basic geology underlying the river's landscapes, ecology, environmental problems, and grandeur.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2013-05-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781484971918 |
An excerpt. . . This was another shock. I began to climb the wheel like a squirrel; but I would hardly get the boat started to port before I would see new dangers on that side, and away I would spin to the other; only to find perils accumulating to starboard, and be crazy to get to port again. Then came the leadsman's sepulchral cry:- "D-e-e-p four!" Deep four in a bottomless crossing! The terror of it took my breath away. "M-a-r-k three! M-a-r-k three! Quarter less three! Half twain!" This was frightful! I seized the bell-ropes and stopped the engines. "Quarter twain! Quarter twain! Mark twain!"
Author | : John Francis McDermott |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780809321919 |
A collection of thirty-seven stories, reprints from diaries and journals, and other materials published prior to the days of Mark Twain that depict Mississippi River life.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2021-01-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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 along the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after the war.
Author | : Jonathan Raban |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2018-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781780601366 |
'Jonathan Raban is one of the world's greatest living travel writers.' William Dalrymple 'The best book of travel ever written by an Englishman about the United States' Jan Morris, Independent Navigating the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans, Raban opens himself to experience the river in all her turbulent and unpredictable old glory. Going wherever the current takes him, he joins a coon-hunt in Savana, falls for a girl in St Louis, worships with black Baptists in Memphis, hangs out with the housewives of Pemiscot and the hog-king of Dubuque. Through tears of laughter, we are led into the heartland of America - with its hunger and hospitality, its inventive energy and its charming lethargy - and come to know something of its soul. The journey is as much the story of Raban as it is of the Mississippi. Navigating the dangerous, ever-changing waters in an unsuitably fragile aluminium skiff, he immerses himself with an irresistible emotional intensity as he tries to give shape to the river and the story - finding himself by turns vulnerable, curious, angry and, like all of us, sometimes foolishly in love.