Books

Life on the Mississippi 

Mark Twain recounts his experience as a riverboat pilot. It’s mostly memoir, but it’s also part travelogue since the job is necessarily mobile. 

I read this last because I thought I would like it less than the travel books. The opposite proved true. 

He clearly knows and loves the technical minutiae of piloting, the Mississippi, and its denizens. This is what he wrote just before Huck Finn, and his writing is in top form. 

Five stars.

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