Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
64 chapters · 14 h 53 min · English
Read by John Greenman
Nature · Memoirs
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Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. (Summary from Wikipedia)
Chapters
1 01- The River and its History 15 min 2 02-The River and Its Explorers 13 min 3 03-Frescoes From the Past 32 min 4 04-The Boys' Ambition 10 min 5 05-I Want to be a Cub-pilot 9 min 6 06-A Cub-pilot's Experience 15 min 7 07-A Daring Deed 13 min 8 08-Perplexing Lessons 13 min 9 09-Continued Perplexities 14 min 10 10-Completing My Education 12 min 11 11-The River Rises 15 min 12 12-Sounding 13 min 13 13-A Pilot's Needs 18 min 14 14-Rank and Dignity of Piloting 14 min 15 15-The Pilots' Monopoly 25 min 16 16-Racing Days 12 min 17 17-Cut-offs and Stephen 17 min 18 18-I Take a Few Extra Lessons 12 min 19 19-Brown and I Exchange Compliments 8 min 20 20-A Catastophe 12 min 21 21-A Section in My Biography 2 min 22 22-I Return to My Muttons 18 min 23 23-Traveling Incognito 7 min 24 24-My Incognito is Exploded 12 min 25 25-From Cairo to Hickman 13 min 26 26-Under Fire 14 min 27 27-Some Imported Articles 12 min 28 28-Uncle Mumford Unloads 18 min 29 29-A Few Specimen Bricks 21 min 30 30-Sketches by the Way 18 min 31 31-A Thumb-print and What Came of It 32 min 32 32-The Disposal of a Bonanza 9 min 33 33-Refreshments and Ethics 10 min 34 34-Tough Yarns 4 min 35 35-Vicksburg During the Trouble 18 min 36 36-The Professor's Yarn 14 min 37 37-The End of the 'Gold Dust' 2 min 38 38-The House Beautiful 14 min 39 39-Manufactures and Miscreants 13 min 40 40-Castles and Culture 13 min 41 41-The Metropolis of the South 9 min 42 42-Hygiene and Sentiment 9 min 43 43-The Art of Inhumation 8 min 44 44-City Sights 15 min 45 45-Southern Sports 18 min 46 46-Enchantments and Enchanters 10 min 47 47-Uncle Remus and Mr. Cable 5 min 48 48-Sugar and Postage 14 min 49 49-Episodes in Pilot Life 12 min 50 50-The 'Original Jacobs' 12 min 51 51-Reminiscences 15 min 52 52-A Burning Brand 26 min 53 53-My Boyhood's Home 11 min 54 54-Past and Present 17 min 55 55-A Vendetta and Other Things 13 min 56 56-A Question of Law 11 min 57 57-An Archangel 14 min 58 58-On the Upper River 14 min 59 59-Legends and Scenery 16 min 60 60-Speculations and Conclusions 17 min 61 Appendix A 24 min 62 Appendix B 9 min 63 Appendix C 9 min 64 Appendix D 32 min
