SINOPSIS DEL LIBRO

Before he was Americas greatest storyteller he was a teenager who talked his way onto a steamboat and learned to read a river like scriptureMark Twains Life on the Mississippi is part coming-of-age memoir part travelogue part love letter to a vanishing world of paddlewheelers riverboat pilots and the thousand-mile stretch of water that made him He recounts his apprenticeship learning the treacherous currents and shifting sandbars of the Mississip...Seguir leyendo