num_pages: 552
description: The Mississippi River and Mark Twain are practically synonymous in American culture. Known as “America’s river,” the popularity of Twain’s steamboat and steamboat pilots the on the ever-changing Mississippi has endured prominently over the years. Samuel Clemens became a licensed river pilot at the age of 24 under the apprenticeship of Horace Bixby, pilot of the Paul Jones. His name, Mark Twain, was derived from the river pilot term describing safe navigating conditions or “mark two fathoms” thus shortened to mark twain by the leadsmen whose job it was to monitor the water’s depth and report it to the pilot. Although Mark Twain used his childhood experiences growing up along the Mississippi in numerous works, nowhere is the river and pilot’s life more thoroughly described than in Life on the Mississippi. This edition contains 54 illustrations form the 1883 Montral Dawson Edition.
language: English
title: Life on the Mississippi
titlecomplete: Life on the Mississippi
characters: Samuel Clemens, Mark Twain
genres: Classics, Autobiography, History, Travel, Humor, Biography, Literature, Memoir, American, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 14567
places: Mississippi River, The United States of America
publisher: Digital Scanning Inc