Life on Mississippi. Adventures of Tom Sawyer

A rare and precious gift to see in life a cheerful, ridiculous and to implement this vision of life in prose was possessed by a former pilot with Mississippi and the world famous American writer Mark Twain, famous for his stories about the adventures of two American boys - who does not know Tom Sawyer and Hecelberry Finn? The childhood of the world-famous American writer passed in the town of Hannibal on the banks of the Great Mississippi River, where at the age of 12 he became an assistant to the pilot, and then, having learned every marthes, backwater and landmarks on the banks of the Great River, he himself became a pilot. Memories of those times and new impressions of traveling along the river have become a collection of nostalgic and at the same time acutely social essays “Life on Mississippi”