Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Life on the MississippiMark Twain · 1883Twain's years as a steamboat pilot and a return to the river. Read Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain page by page and explore its network of 1,198 people…BUT the basin of the Mississippi is the Body of The Nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and probably in habitable capacity, having about eight-ninths of its…All books in the ECCE gallery