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Life on the Mississippi

di Mark Twain · 65 parti · about 11 hours 54 minutes di lettura

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Prima di diventare famoso, Mark Twain era un ragazzo in una città sul fiume che voleva una sola cosa: lavorare su un battello a vapore. Questo libro racconta come diventò un apprendista pilota e imparò a memoria il grande fiume Mississippi, ogni curva, banco di sabbia e passaggio, sotto un maestro severo di nome Bixby. Più tardi, ormai scrittore famoso, percorre di nuovo il fiume e lo trova cambiato. È divertente, caldo e pieno di storie del fiume.

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Capitoli

The 'Body of the Nation'1 min Chapter 1: The River and Its History11 min Chapter 2: The River and Its Explorers9 min Chapter 3: Frescoes from the Past29 min Chapter 4: The Boys' Ambition8 min Chapter 5: I Want to be a Cub-pilot8 min Chapter 6: A Cub-pilot's Experience13 min Chapter 7: A Daring Deed11 min Chapter 8: Perplexing Lessons12 min Chapter 9: Continued Perplexities12 min Chapter 10: Completing My Education10 min Chapter 11: The River Rises12 min Chapter 12: Sounding11 min Chapter 13: A Pilot's Needs15 min Chapter 14: Rank and Dignity of Piloting11 min Chapter 15: The Pilots' Monopoly20 min Chapter 16: Racing Days9 min Chapter 17: Cut-offs and Stephen14 min Chapter 18: I Take a Few Extra Lessons10 min Chapter 19: Brown and I Exchange Compliments7 min Chapter 20: A Catastrophe10 min Chapter 21: A Section in My Biography1 min Chapter 22: I Return to My Muttons13 min Chapter 23: Traveling Incognito5 min Chapter 24: My Incognito is Exploded10 min Chapter 25: From Cairo to Hickman10 min Chapter 26: Under Fire12 min Chapter 27: Some Imported Articles9 min Chapter 28: Uncle Mumford Unloads15 min Chapter 29: A Few Specimen Bricks17 min Chapter 30: Sketches by the Way13 min Chapter 31: A Thumb-print and What Came of It26 min Chapter 32: The Disposal of a Bonanza7 min Chapter 33: Refreshments and Ethics8 min Chapter 34: Tough Yarns3 min Chapter 35: Vicksburg During the Trouble13 min Chapter 36: The Professor's Yarn11 min Chapter 37: The End of the 'Gold Dust'1 min Chapter 38: The House Beautiful9 min Chapter 39: Manufactures and Miscreants9 min Chapter 40: Castles and Culture9 min Chapter 41: The Metropolis of the South6 min Chapter 42: Hygiene and Sentiment6 min Chapter 43: The Art of Inhumation6 min Chapter 44: City Sights11 min Chapter 45: Southern Sports14 min Chapter 46: Enchantments and Enchanters7 min Chapter 47: Uncle Remus and Mr. Cable4 min Chapter 48: Sugar and Postage10 min Chapter 49: Episodes in Pilot Life9 min Chapter 50: The 'Original Jacobs'9 min Chapter 51: Reminiscences12 min Chapter 52: A Burning Brand22 min Chapter 53: My Boyhood's Home9 min Chapter 54: Past and Present14 min Chapter 55: A Vendetta and Other Things10 min Chapter 56: A Question of Law9 min Chapter 57: An Archangel9 min Chapter 58: On the Upper River10 min Chapter 59: Legends and Scenery12 min Chapter 60: Speculations and Conclusions13 min Appendix A: Voyage of the Times-Democrat's Relief Boat through the Inundated Regions21 min Appendix B: The Mississippi River Commission7 min Appendix C: Reception of Captain Basil Hall's Book in the United States7 min Appendix D: The Undying Head29 min