Part travel book part autobiography and part social commentary Life on theMississippi is a memoir of the cub pilots apprenticeship a record of Twainsreturn to t... » 

Part travel book part autobiography and part social commentary Life on theMississippi is a memoir of the cub pilots apprenticeship a record of Twainsreturn to the river and to Hannibal as an adult a meditation on the harshvagaries of nature and a study of the varied and sometimes violent activitiesengaged in by those who live on the rivers shores. «