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The Mississippi River, known as “America’s River” and Mark Twain are practically synonymous in American culture. The popularity of Twain’s steamboat and steamboat pilot on the ever-changing Mississippi has endured for over a century.
A brilliant amalgam of remembrance and reportage, by turns satiric, celebratory, nostalgic, and melancholy, Life on the Mississippi evokes the great river that Mark Twain knew as a boy and young man and the one he revisited as a mature and successful author. Written between the publication of his two greatest novels, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Twain’s rich portrait of the Mississippi marks a distinctive transition in the life of the river and the nation, from the boom years preceding the Civil War to the sober times that followed it.
Samuel Clemens became a licensed river pilot at the age of twenty-four 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.” This term was 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 the pilot’s life more thoroughly described than in Life on the Mississippi.
MARK TWAIN (1835–1910) was born Samuel L. Clemens in the town of Florida, Missouri. One of the most popular and influential authors our nation has ever produced, his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. He has been called not only the greatest humorist of his age but the father of American literature.
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In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as hundreds of thousands of men and women borrowed money, quit their jobs, and allowed themselves - for the first time ever - to imagine a future of ease and splendor.
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The Age of Gold
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When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill on the American River, it completely transformed the territory of California. Hundreds of thousands of people sped to California by any means possible, and small cities sprung up to service their needs as they sought the precious metal. By 1850, California had become a state; it had also become a symbol of where the nation was going.
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Very Enjoyable
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In The Thirty-Nine Steps, Hannay struggles to thwart an assassination plot designed to hasten war between Britain and Germany. Later he is plucked from the trenches first, in Greenmantle, to frustrate a plot to ferment an uprising in the Islamic world; and then, in Mr. Standfast, to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring operating among pacifist elements in England. After the war, his adventures continue in The Three Hostages; and then in The Island of Sheep, when an old oath to protect the son of a friend from his days in Africa draws him into new danger.
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Values of a bygone era
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In 1930, two novice paddlers - Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port - launched a secondhand 18-foot canvas canoe from the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling for an ambitious summer-long journey from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. Without benefit of radio, motor or good maps, the teenagers made their way over 2,250 miles of rivers, lakes, and difficult portages.
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Seems like an abridged version
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Harriett Tubman
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Shame on the Narration
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In this Booker Prize-winning work, Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son, who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew, who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny.
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In The Road, Jack London embraces the concepts of unconfined individualism and Darwinism through his autobiographical account of his time riding the rails of Canada and the United States. The author of White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and Sea Wolf, relays the time leading up to turning point in his life - a perfunctory trial and a 30-day imprisonment in the Erie County Penitentiary for the crime of vagrancy - an experience so degrading that he turned to a career in writing.
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Charming, insightful, mind blowing.
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This riveting history is a firsthand account of the long and arduous search for one of the greatest explorers of the 19th century. Journalist and adventurer Henry M. Stanley was known for his search for the legendary David Livingstone, and their eventual meeting led to the popular quotation "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" A real-life adventure story, How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa tells of the incredible hardships - disease, hostile natives, tribal warfare, impenetrable jungles, and other obstacles - faced by a daring explorer. This must-have account also includes a wealth of information on various African peoples.
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Remarkable courage and pluck!
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- Ben
- 09-11-14
Whispersync deal
Anyone considering this Daily Deal--there are two Kindle editions available, one for a dollar and one for free. Buy the free one, add the Whispersync narration for a dollar, and you get this $5 Daily Deal for $1 =)
(I'll get rid of this review tomorrow until after I have a chance to listen to the book)
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- Sandra
- 06-03-11
Fantastic!
Fantastic read, the best narrator yet!! Rates as high as Huck Finn narrated by Elijah Wood and Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume one.
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- Jean
- 09-11-14
A meandering tour of the Mississippi River
Of the first fifteen chapters of the book, twelve are reprinted from “The Atlantic.” In the three introductory ones which precede these, the physical character of the river is sketched. The book was published in 1883. The book begins with a brief history of the river beginning with the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto then on the French Marquette and La Salle.
The most engrossing section describes the author’s education as a steamboat pilot. Vivid details and anecdotes link the story of life on the River. He tells of the odd habits of the steamboat pilots. There is a section on how to read the river including the conformation of the banks, sandbanks, islands and inlets as well as sudden cut outs of the river after storms.
The rest of the book is an account of Twain’s trip down the Mississippi decades later as an old man. He describes the changes in the river and of American during his lifetime. The book is hilarious, fascinating, meandering tour of the Mississippi River most of all the book is entertain. Grover Gardner does an excellent job narrating the book.
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- Debra Chilcott
- 05-18-18
Mark Twain and Narrator Grover Gardner
It doesn't get much better than this!! Great place to start your own tour of the marvels of the Mississippi River. Grover, narrate more Twain works, please!
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- Libby
- 08-02-21
I think it might be a law...
"I come from a country that raises corn and cotton, cockleburrs and Democrats and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."
It always startles me to learn that someone has not read and loved the works of Mark Twain. I'm pretty sure that the schoolchildren in other states are exposed to Twain's work but we Missourians claim him and are attached to him in ways that the denizens of Elmira NY and Hartford CT can never approach.
I've read and loved "Life On The Mississippi" perhaps a dozen times in my longish life. This version on Audible is just as satisfying as reading it in print. I was especially pleased with Grover Gardner's performance and cannot be the only one who pictures the face of Hal Holbrook when listening to him.
One tiny nit to pick: In Missouri, that one town on the river founded by French settlers is pronounced Cape Ji-RAR- doe, not the perfectly proper, otherwise accurate French pronunciation Gardner gives. But unless you grow up in St. Louis or its environs, there's no way to guess the correct local pronunciations of Gravois, Florissant, or dozens of other ways we've bastardized the language of Moliere.
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- Yas
- 03-28-21
Quite the trip indeed
Mark Twain never disappoints with his 'Trip books'. Local or foreign, he takes you on a uncomfortable yet cozy journey down both physical & emotional entities with such uncomplicated ease.
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- Troy Bryan
- 03-14-21
Good book
A lot of folk stories by Mr. Twain. The history of steamboats I found fascinating.
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- Bob in Riverview, Florida
- 10-05-20
Great narration. Always a great book.
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in this book. I enjoy rereading and listening to it. Do not listen on speaker as this was the 19th century and there is liberal use if racial terms.
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- Chris Coyne
- 01-11-16
Life on the river.
A great story. The narrator does a great job. This book had everything. Mark Twain can make any subject interesting.
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- Eric
- 11-24-15
Great story.
I find it impossible not to love Mark Twains writing style. Very seldom do I openly laugh during a story, but did several times with this one. I have never "wasted" a credit with MT. Now on to 'The Guilded Age".
*the narrator was great on this one too. Check it out.
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