All along the Mississippi--on country plantation landings, urban levees and quays, and the decks of steamboats--nineteenth-century African Americans worked and

A new American journey.

"Life on the Mississippi" is a memoir by Mark Twain, published in 1883. In this work, Twain reflects on his experiences as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi

?Mark Twain was the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs.? --William Faulkner A brilliant amalgam of remembrance and reportage, by tur