Twain's memoir of his years as a steamboat pilot doubles as a portrait of the Mississippi River itself — its shifting channels, river towns, and the vanished art of reading the water. Part travelogue, part history, it is the great American book about a river and the world that moved along it.
Sources for Mark Twain — Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain — Life on the Mississippi in Geography and Exploration
Held in the Geography and Exploration chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Strabo — Geography (Geographica) (23)
- Marco Polo — The Travels of Marco Polo (1300)
- Ibn Battuta — Travels in Asia and Africa (1355)
- Christopher Columbus — Journal of the First Voyage (1492)
- Antonio Pigafetta — Magellan's Voyage Around the World (1525)
- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca — Naufragios (1542)
- Richard Hakluyt — The Principal Navigations (1589)
- James Cook — The Journals of Captain Cook (1768)
- Alexander von Humboldt — Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions (1814)
- George Perkins Marsh — Man and Nature (1864)
- Richard Henry Major — The Discoveries of Prince Henry the Navigator (1868)
- Ernest Shackleton — The Heart of the Antarctic (1909)