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A memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War and also a travel book recounting his trip along the Mississippi River from St Louis to New Orleans many years after the War The book begins with a brief history of the river as reported by Europeans and Americans beginning with the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1542 It continues with anecdotes of Twains training as a steamboat pi...Seguir leyendo