Lives & Memoirs
Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
2026
14h 54m$1.99
One-time. Yours forever, with offline downloads.
Or subscribe and stream it
Plus streams all of Eratone. All-Access opens all five apps.
He was a licensed pilot before he was Mark Twain, and he never got over it. The first half is the apprenticeship: learning twelve hundred miles of shifting river by heart, the tyrant pilots, the cub's education by humiliation. The second half is the return twenty years later to find the steamboats gone, the towns changed, and the river doing exactly as it pleased.
Inside this audiobook
64 chapters
- 1The River and its History15m
- 2The River and its Explorers13m
- 3Frescoes From the Past32m
- 4The Boys' Ambition10m
- 5I Want to be a Cub-pilot9m
- 6A Cub-pilot's Experience15m
- 7A Daring Deed13m
- 8Perplexing Lessons13m
- 9Continued Perplexities14m
- 10Completing my Education12m
- 11The River Rises15m
- 12Sounding13m
- 13A Pilot's Needs18m
- 14Rank and Dignity of Pilotin14m
- 15The Pilots' Monopoly25m
- 16Racing Days12m
- 17Cut-offs and Stephen17m
- 18I Take a Few Extra Lessons12m
- 19Brown and I Exchange Compliments8m
- 20A Catastrophe12m
- 21A Section in My Biography2m
- 22I Return to My Muttons18m
- 23Travelling Incognito7m
- 24My Incognito is Exploded12m
- 25From Cairo to Hickman13m
- 26Under Fire14m
- 27Some Imported Articles12m
- 28Uncle Mumford Unloads18m
- 29A Few Specimen Bricks21m
- 30Sketches by the Way18m
- 31A Thumb-print and What Came of It32m
- 32The Disposal of a Bonanza9m
- 33Refreshments and Ethics11m
- 34Tough Yarns4m
- 35Vicksburg During the Trouble18m
- 36The Professor's Yarn14m
- 37The End of the 'Gold Dust'2m
- 38The House Beautiful14m
- 39Manufactures and Miscreants13m
- 40Castles and Culture13m
- 41The Metropolis of the South9m
- 42Hygiene and Sentiment9m
- 43The Art of Inhumation8m
- 44City Sights15m
- 45Southern Sports18m
- 46Enchantments and Enchanters10m
- 47Uncle Remus and Mr. Cable5m
- 48Sugar and Postage14m
- 49Episodes in Pilot Life12m
- 50The 'Original Jacobs'12m
- 51Reminiscences15m
- 52A Burning Brand26m
- 53My Boyhood's Home11m
- 54Past and Present17m
- 55A Vendetta and Other Things13m
- 56A Question of Law11m
- 57An Archangel14m
- 58On the Upper River14m
- 59Legends and Scenery16m
- 60Speculations and Conclusion17m
- 61Appendix A24m
- 62Appendix B9m
- 63Appendix C9m
- 64Appendix D32m
From our listeners
Member reviews
Share your experience with other listeners.
Sign in to write a reviewNo reviews yet. Be the first to share what this audiobook did for you.
