Exploration & Journeys
Old Times on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
2026
3h 38m$1.99
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Every boy in the village wanted to be a steamboatman, and he was the one who managed it. This is the original magazine run, the pure river piece before it was padded out into a book: learning the Mississippi by heart from a pilot who would not explain anything twice, the humiliations of the cub, and the fact that a pilot on that river was the freest man in America.
Inside this audiobook
8 chapters
- 1'Cub' wants to be a Pilot20m
- 2'Cub' Pilot's Exprience; or, Learning the River29m
- 3The Continued Perplexities of 'Cub' Piloting28m
- 4The 'Cub' Pilot's Education nearly Completed27m
- 5'Sounding' Faculties Peculiarly Necessary to a Pilot31m
- 6Official Rank and Dignity of a Pilot. The Rise and Decadence of the Pilot's Asociation41m
- 7Leaving Port; Racing; Shortening of the River by Cut-offs; A Steamboar's Ghost; 'Stephen's' Plan of 'Resumption'29m
- 8A Literary Nightmare13m
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