An account of America’s vanished past…   
The book that earned Mark Twain his first recognition as a serious writer…
Discover the magic of life on the Mississippi.

          At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Mark Twain’s early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, Life on the Mississippi is the raw material from which Twain wrote his finest novel-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.