FTP, identify this book, published in 1883, which describes the youthful career as a riverboat pilot of its author, Mark Twain.
The first half of the book is a history of the river from 1541 to the early nineteenth century, which includes as history an episode which was meant to go in one of the authorÕs novels. Seven years after writing it, the second half was added, a retu  rn trip from St. Louis to New Orleans in which the writer links Southern romanticism to the novels of Walter Scott. FTP, identify this book, published in 1883, which describes the youthful career as a riverboat pilot of its author, Mark Twain.
The first half of the book is a history of the river from 1541 to the early nineteenth century, which includes as history an episode which was meant to go in one of the authorÕs novels.
Life on the Mississippi