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Combine the wild waters of the Mississippi River and wordsmith Mark Twain, and what have you got? Some of the most famous and familiar literary works in American history, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Gilded Age, and Life on the Mississippi. Twain spent the first half of his life on and around the river, from his boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri, to his years as a steamboat pilot, during which he traveled up and down the river as far south as New Orleans. Commemorating one of Americas most beloved authors and the landscape he portrayed in his works, Mark Twains Mississippi River includes illustrations from various editions of his books, both fiction and nonfiction maps historical photographs landscape paintings of the river and its inhabitants and modern photography of towns and countryside, showing how much the landscape has changed or hasnt since the days of Huckleberry Finn.