A beautiful edition with the formatting and more than 300 illustrations from the original first edition published in 1883.

The cover is a Frank E. Schoonover painting taken from a later publication. Don't be fooled by other versions that have no illustrations or contain very small print. Reading our edition will make you feel that you are traveling down the Mississippi with Mark himself.

Life on the Mississippi was released in 1883 as a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, as well as travels on the river after the war. The writing shows Twain's love for the river and how it was uniquely American. The book was the first submitted for publishing as a typewritten manuscript.