November 15th, 2011 
admin Life on the Mississippi (1883) (Oxford Mark Twain)
Part travel book, part autobiography, and part social commentary, Life on the Mississippi is a memoir of the cub pilot’s apprenticeship, a record of Twain’s return to the river and to Hannibal as an adult, a meditation on the harsh vagaries of nature, and a study of the varied and sometimes violent activities engaged in by those who live on the river’s shores. As Willie Morris notes in his introduction, it “is written with the flamboyance and affecting precision of a craftsman.” Life on the Miss
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