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A memoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. The first half details a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541 and describes Twain's career as a Mississippi steamboat pilot, the fulfillment of a childhood dream. The second half of Life on the Mississippi tells of Twain's return, many years after, to travel the river from St. Louis to New Orleans. By then the competition from...
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"La vida en el Misisipi es un punto de anclaje en la obra de Mark Twain. Continuamente, el autor regresa a las margenes del rio para contar las mas ingeniosas historias con una pluma mordaz e inexorable. En este libro se puede encontrar una imagen detallada de los territorios proximos al ficticio pueblo de St. Petersburg de Tom Sawyer, una mirada experimentada del rio que recorren Huck Finn y Jim y rasgos del caracter de los vecinos de Wilson Puddnhead....
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