Track | Chapter | Length | Track | Chapter | Length | |
1 | 01 The River and its History | 14:52 | 33 | 33 Refreshments and Ethics | 10:17 | |
2 | 02 The River and its Explorers | 12:16 | 34 | 34 Tough Yarns | 4:06 | |
3 | 03 Frescoes From the Past | 31:37 | 35 | 35 Vicksburg During the Trouble | 17:20 | |
4 | 04 The Boys' Ambition | 9:52 | 36 | 36 The Professor's Yarn | 13:45 | |
5 | 05 I Want to be a Cub-pilot | 9:09 | 37 | 37 The End of the 'Gold Dust' | 2:00 | |
6 | 06 A Cub-pilot's Experience | 14:59 | 38 | 38 The House Beautiful | 14:00 | |
7 | 07 A Daring Deed | 13:15 | 39 | 39 Manufactures and Miscreants | 12:32 | |
8 | 08 Perplexing Lessons | 13:06 | 40 | 40 Castles and Culture | 12:37 | |
9 | 09 Continued Perplexities | 13:40 | 41 | 41 The Metropolis of the South | 8:55 | |
10 | 10 Completing my Education | 12:11 | 42 | 42 Hygiene and Sentiment | 8:35 | |
11 | 11 The River Rises | 14:39 | 43 | 43 The Art of Inhumation | 8:10 | |
12 | 12 Sounding | 13:00 | 44 | 44 City Sights | 14:49 | |
13 | 13 A Pilot's Needs | 17:38 | 45 | 45 Southern Sports | 17:32 | |
14 | 14 Rank and Dignity of Pilotin | 14:04 | 46 | 46 Enchantments and Enchanters | 9:19 | |
15 | 15 The Pilots' Monopoly | 24:21 | 47 | 47 Uncle Remus and Mr. Cable | 5:01 | |
16 | 16 Racing Days | 11:46 | 48 | 48 Sugar and Postage | 14:03 | |
17 | 17 Cut-offs and Stephen | 16:17 | 49 | 49 Episodes in Pilot Life | 11:59 | |
18 | 18 I Take a Few Extra Lessons | 11:43 | 50 | 50 The 'Original Jacobs' | 11:33 | |
19 | 19 Brown and I Exchange Compliments | 7:47 | 51 | 51 Reminiscences | 14:40 | |
20 | 20 A Catastrophe | 11:47 | 52 | 52 A Burning Brand | 25:23 | |
21 | 21 A Section in My Biography | 1:34 | 53 | 53 My Boyhood's Home | 10:39 | |
22 | 22 I Return to My Muttons | 17:32 | 54 | 54 Past and Present | 16:52 | |
23 | 23 Travelling Incognito | 6:33 | 55 | 55 A Vendetta and Other Things | 12:57 | |
24 | 24 My Incognito is Exploded | 11:43 | 56 | 56 A Question of Law | 10:59 | |
25 | 25 From Cairo to Hickman | 12:28 | 57 | 57 An Archangel | 13:22 | |
26 | 26 Under Fire | 14:04 | 58 | 58 On the Upper River | 13:43 | |
27 | 27 Some Imported Articles | 11:33 | 59 | 59 Legends and Scenery | 15:21 | |
28 | 28 Uncle Mumford Unloads | 18:09 | 60 | 60 Speculations and Conclusion | 16:21 | |
29 | 29 A Few Specimen Bricks | 20:17 | 61 | 61 Appendix A | 23:20 | |
30 | 30 Sketches by the Way | 17:29 | 62 | 62 Appendix B | 8:47 | |
31 | 31 A Thumb-print and What Came of It | 31:59 | 63 | 63 Appendix C | 8:49 | |
32 | 32 The Disposal of a Bonanza | 8:39 | 64 | 64 Appendix D | 31:35 |
Notes
Running Time: 14 hours and 52 minutes
Read by: John Greenman
Book Coordinator: John Greenman
Meta Coordinator: Kara Shallenberg
Artwork
Cover and insert: View on the Mississippi Fifty-Seven Miles Below St. Anthony Falls, Minneapolis by Ferdinand Richardt (1819–1895) 1858
Inset: Portrait of Mark Twain (1907) taken by A. F. Bradley
Recordings
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Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain, published in 1883 and, notably, the first submission to a publisher of a typewritten manuscript. The memoir is in two parts. The first recounts Twain’s memories of a halcyon time before the Civil War when Twain was in training to become a steamboat pilot. Here, Twain fondly recounts life on the river from St. Louis to New Orleans. The second part of the memoir recounts the trip Twain made down the river many years later after the Civil War. The two parts reflect that as the Mississippi River separates America, east from west, the Civil War separated America, north and south, and continues to separate America, its past and its future. Twain loved his time as a cub pilot, mentored by a senior steamboat pilot, and, analogous to William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, the first part of the memoir is brilliant with the light of youth, potential, and promise. The second part, coming as it does after the almost unfathomable, albeit necessary tragedy that was the Civil War, is the work of a man who’s lived, and has suffered both the good and the bad offered up in a life fully lived. He complains about the competition from the railroads, the rise of urban America with its new and large cities, and makes trenchant observations on greed, gullibility, and what he perceived to be bad architecture. Take the trip down the river with Mark Twain, the writer who knew America so well, its east and west, its north and south, its past and future. (Summary by Michael Hogan)
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0684758936295 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0682550991719 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD box |
Author | Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) |
Year | 1883 |
Recording | |
Read by | John Greenman |
Length | 14 hours 52 minutes |
Type of Reading | Solo |
Life On The Mississippi
- Author: Mark Twain
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