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Life As A Mississippi Riverboat Captain
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Author : Laura Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2017-12-15
Life As A Mississippi Riverboat Captain written by Laura Sullivan and has been published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
With the acquisition of new land in the 1800s, there were many opportunities to travel along waterways, such as the Mississippi River. One profession was that of a riverboat captain. Readers learn what it was like to operate the boat, live on the ship, and transport goods and people along one of the United States' main corridors.
Life On The Mississippi
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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1923
Life On The Mississippi written by Mark Twain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1923 with Mississippi River categories.
Life As A Mississippi Riverboat Captain
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Author : Laura Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2017-12-15
Life As A Mississippi Riverboat Captain written by Laura Sullivan and has been published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
With the acquisition of new land in the 1800s, there were many opportunities to travel along waterways, such as the Mississippi River. One profession was that of a riverboat captain. Readers learn what it was like to operate the boat, live on the ship, and transport goods and people along one of the United States' main corridors.
Life On The Mississippi
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Author : Samuel Langhorne Clemens
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-01
Life On The Mississippi written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-01 with Travel categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Life on the Mississippi" by Samuel Langhorne Clemens. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Life As A Mississippi Riverboat Captain
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Author : Laura L. Sullivan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Life As A Mississippi Riverboat Captain written by Laura L. Sullivan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Mississippi River categories.
With the acquisition of new land in the 1800s, there were many opportunities to travel along waterways, such as the Mississippi River. One profession was that of a riverboat captain. Readers learn what it was like to operate the boat, live on the ship, and transport goods and people along one of the United States' main corridors.
Life On The Mississippi
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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
Life On The Mississippi written by Mark Twain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with Mississippi River categories.
A memoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. The first half details a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541 and describes Twain's career as a Mississippi steamboat pilot, the fulfillment of a childhood dream. The second half of Life on the Mississippi tells of Twain's return, many years after, to travel the river from St. Louis to New Orleans. By then the competition from railroads had made steamboats passe, in spite of improvements in navigation and boat construction. Twain sees new, large cities on the river, and records his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and bad architecture.
Life On The Mississippi
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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2019-04-08
Life On The Mississippi written by Mark Twain and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-08 with Fiction categories.
BUT the basin of the Mississippi is the Body of The Nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and probably in habitable capacity, having about eight-ninths of its area; then comes that of the Yenisei, with about seven-ninths; the Lena, Amoor, Hoang-ho, Yang-tse-kiang, and Nile, five-ninths; the Ganges, less than one-half; the Indus, less than one-third; the Euphrates, one-fifth; the Rhine, one-fifteenth. It exceeds in extent the whole of Europe, exclusive of Russia, Norway, and Sweden. It would contain austria four times, germany or spain five times, france six times, the british islands or italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river-basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we consider the extent of the valley of the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateaus of Central Asia, or the mighty sweep of the swampy Amazon more adequate. Latitude, elevation, and rainfall all combine to render every part of the Mississippi Valley capable of supporting a dense population. As a dwelling-place for civilized man it is by far the first upon our globe.
Old Times On The Upper Mississippi
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Author : George Byron Merrick
language : en
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio The Arthur H. Clark Company
Release Date : 2001
Old Times On The Upper Mississippi written by George Byron Merrick and has been published by Cleveland, Ohio The Arthur H. Clark Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
The majesty and glory of the Great River have departed; its glamour remains, fresh and undying, in the memories of those who, with mind's eye, still can see it as it was a half-century ago. Its majesty was apparent in the mighty flood which then flowed throughout the season, scarcely diminished by the summer heat; its glory, in the great commerce which floated upon its bosom, the beginnings of mighty commonwealths yet to be. Its glamour is that indefinable witchery with which memory clothes the commonplace of long ago, transfiguring the labors, cares, responsibilities, and dangers of steamboat life as it really was, into a Midsummer Night's Dream of care-free, exhilarating experiences, and glorified achievement. Of the river itself it may be said, that like the wild tribes which peopled its banks sixty years ago, civilization has been its undoing. The primeval forests which spread for hundreds of miles on either side, then caught and held the melting snows and falling rains of spring within spongy mosses which carpeted the earth; slowly, throughout the summer, were distilled the waters from myriad springs, and these, filling brooks and smaller rivers, feeders of the Great River, maintained a mighty volume of water the season through. Upon the disappearance of the forests, the melting snows and early rains having no holding grounds, are carried quickly to the river, which as quickly rises to an abnormal stage in the early part of the season, to be followed by a dearth which later reduces the Mississippi to the dimensions of a second-rate stream, whereon navigation is impossible for great steamers, and arduous, disheartening and unprofitable for boats of any class. To most men of our day, the life of those who manned the steamers of that once mighty fleet is legendary, almost mythical. Its story is unwritten. To the few participants who yet remain, it is but a memory. The boats themselves have disappeared, leaving no token. The masters and the mates, the pilots and the clerks, the engineers and the men of humbler station have likewise gone. Of the thousands who contributed to give life and direction to the vessels themselves, a meager score of short biographies is all that history vouchsafes. The aim of the present volume is to tell something of these men, and of the boats that they made sentient by their knowledge and power; to relate something of the incidents of river life as seen by a boy during eight years of residence by the riverside, or in active service on the river itself. While it may not literally be claimed, "All of which I saw," it is with satisfaction, not unmixed with pride, that the writer can truthfully assert, "A part of which I was."
Life Between The Levees
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Author : Melody Golding
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2019-04-23
Life Between The Levees written by Melody Golding and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of the Donald T. Wright Award from the the Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library, a special collection of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Life Between the Levees is a chronicle of first-person reflections and folklore from pilots who have dedicated their lives to the river. The stories are as diverse as the storytellers themselves, and the volume is full of drama, suspense, and a way of life a “landlubber” could never imagine. Although waterways and ports in the Mississippi corridor move billions of dollars of products throughout the US and foreign markets, in today's world those who live and work on land have little knowledge of the river and the people who work there. In ten years of interviewing, Melody Golding collected over one hundred personal narratives from men and women who worked and lived on “brown water,” our inland waterways. As photographer, she has taken thousands of photos, of which 130 are included, of the people and boats, and the rivers where they spend their time. The book spans generations of river life—the oldest pilot was born in 1917 and the youngest in 1987—and includes stories from the 1920s to today. The stories begin with the pilots who were “broke in” by early steamboat pilots who were on the river as far back as the late 1800s. The early pilots in this book witnessed the transition from steamboat to diesel boat, while the youngest grew up in the era of GPS and twenty-first-century technology. Among many topics, the pilots reflect movingly on the time spent away from home because of their career, a universal reality for all mariners. As many pilots say when they talk about the river, “I hate her when I’m with her, and I miss her when I’m gone.”
Life On The Mississippi Annotated
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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-12-30
Life On The Mississippi Annotated written by Mark Twain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-30 with categories.
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the timeLife in the Mississippi is an autobiographical chronicle of Mark Twain's adventures during his training as a steamboat captain when he was twenty-one. The book includes a historical context on the Mississippi River. However, the main focus of the memoirs is Mark Twain's learning for the steamboat pilot Horace Bixby, who paid $ 500 to teach him how to operate a steamboat. Although he hesitates in much of his training, Twain finally lives his childhood dream by obtaining a steamboat pilot's license.In the second half of the book, Twain recounts his past during a steamboat trip from St. Louis to New Orleans. On this trip, Twain is particularly observant of changes in modes of transport and meditates on railways, architectural features and the growth and expansion of large cities.