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Book Synopsis Life on the Mississippi by : Mark Twain
Download or read book Life on the Mississippi written by Mark Twain and published by Konemann. This book was released on 2000 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mississippi Pilot by : Mark Twain
Download or read book The Mississippi Pilot written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mississippi Pilot by : Mark Twain
Download or read book The Mississippi Pilot written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mississippi Pilot by : Mark Twain
Download or read book The Mississippi Pilot written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mississippi Pilot written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Where The River Runs Deep by : Joy J. Jackson
Download or read book Where The River Runs Deep written by Joy J. Jackson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joy J. Jackson’s Where the River Runs Deep tells two stories—both significant and both fascinating. It is a biography of the author’s father, Oliver Jackson, who spent virtually his entire life on or near the Mississippi River. And it is a history of the river itself, and the many changes that have transformed it in the twentieth century. Born in an oysterman’s camp in south Louisiana, only a few miles from the Gulf of Mexico, and raised in an orphanage in New Orleans, Oliver Jackson (1896–1985) grew up to become a pilot boat crew member, a merchant seaman, a tugboat-man, and ultimately a Mississippi River pilot, the profession to which he had always aspired. Drawing extensively on oral history, including a series of audiotapes her father recorded before his death, Jackson presents a detailed social history not only of her father and his forebears but of a way of life now past. She vividly portrays village life in once-thriving but now-vanished river communities such as Port Eads and Burrwood in the delta below New Orleans, and in such working-class areas of the city as the Irish Channel. And she provides detailed descriptions of the early days of riverboat piloting between New Orleans and Baton Rouge and of tugboat work in the New Orleans harbor. Throughout, she evokes the special passion and respect that pilots have always had for their work and the river. Woven into Jackson’s narrative of her father’s life and career is a history of the profound changes in life and commerce on the Mississippi River since the turn of the century. During Oliver Jackson’s lifetime, cotton gave way to petroleum as the major product transported on the lower Mississippi, while steamboats faded away and were replaced by towboats, with their long lines of barges. After mid-century many of the plantations and rural homesteads that had lined the banks of the river since the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were crowded by the increasing presence of petrochemical plants. Jackson also writes about such calamitous events as the hurricane of 1915 and the great flood of 1927, and she describes the menace of German submarines at the mouth of the Mississippi during America’s early months in World War II. Where the River Runs Deep is a story of river life unlike any other. It will appeal to students of regional history and family history, as well as to anyone fascinated by the lore of the Mississippi.
Book Synopsis The Mississippi Pilot. By Mark Twain (Mr. Clemens). by : Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Download or read book The Mississippi Pilot. By Mark Twain (Mr. Clemens). written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Old Times on the Mississippi by : Mark Twain
Download or read book Old Times on the Mississippi written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mississippi pilot by : Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Download or read book The Mississippi pilot written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :George Byron Merrick Publisher :Cleveland, O. : A.H. Clark Company, 1909 [c1908] ISBN 13 : Total Pages :346 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (334 download)
Book Synopsis Old Times on the Upper Mississippi by : George Byron Merrick
Download or read book Old Times on the Upper Mississippi written by George Byron Merrick and published by Cleveland, O. : A.H. Clark Company, 1909 [c1908]. This book was released on 1909 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: [Cleveland, OH]: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1909.
Book Synopsis Life Between the Levees by : Melody Golding
Download or read book Life Between the Levees written by Melody Golding and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.”
Book Synopsis The Mississippi Pilot; Two Men of Sandy Bar; Poems (Classic Reprint) by : Mark Twain
Download or read book The Mississippi Pilot; Two Men of Sandy Bar; Poems (Classic Reprint) written by Mark Twain and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Mississippi Pilot; Two Men of Sandy Bar; Poems The following pages contain a very humorous account of the life of a Mississippi Pilot. Amid his varied experiences, ivie. Clemens, the writer of this book, appears to have studied piloting; and if our information be correct, he assumed his nom de plume, mare twain, from the sounding line in use on the river, the cry mark twain being the depth indicated, as mentioned at page 31. But the pilot's life, as described by Mark Twain, is not merely a record of adventure. It is full of information; and, under the thick veil of quaintness and American drollery, there lies much practical knowledge and information. The difficulties of the Mississippi Pilot are no fiction, and while Mark Twain carries us along with him in easy flowing narrative, we are con stantly reminded of the danger of the channel and the skill of the pilot himself. And although mark twain does not shrink from some forcible word painting in his book, there is nothing to offend even the fastidious reader in the pages now offered for his perusal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Mississippi Pilot and Mark Twain's Loss of Faith by : James Lester Merriner
Download or read book The Mississippi Pilot and Mark Twain's Loss of Faith written by James Lester Merriner and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ohio and Mississippi Pilot, Consisting of a Set of Charts of Those Rivers ... by : J. C. Gilleland
Download or read book The Ohio and Mississippi Pilot, Consisting of a Set of Charts of Those Rivers ... written by J. C. Gilleland and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mississippi Pilot, by Mark Twain. Two Men of Sandy Bar, and Poems, by Bret Harte by : Mark Twain
Download or read book The Mississippi Pilot, by Mark Twain. Two Men of Sandy Bar, and Poems, by Bret Harte written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Boys' Ambition written by Mark Twain and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 1975 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain relates the boyhood experiences on the Mississippi that led to his ambition to be a river-boat pilot.
Book Synopsis The Ohio and Mississippi Pilot by : Jc Gilleland
Download or read book The Ohio and Mississippi Pilot written by Jc Gilleland and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.