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Life On The Mississippi (Mark Twain) - Book Review

Mere Mortals Conversations
Mere Mortals Conversations
Episode • Sep 22, 2020 • 18m
The most enjoyable book that Kyrin has read all year! 'Life On The Mississippi' is a non-conventional book, alternating between memoirs, story telling, historical facts, reminisces of the past and cultural observations. Mark Twain gets the chance to recount his old adventures as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi river in his youth and explore some of the changes that he has seen from before and after the American Civil War and the effects of the Industrial Revolution.
Kyrin had this to say about the book. "I came into this book expecting it to be a descriptive but maybe...