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Front Life on the Mississipi
Back A book
Mark Twain
1883
Part history part Geography part travelogue part memoir
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.

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