{"product_id":"life-on-the-mississippi","title":"Life on the Mississippi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis 1987 Reader's Digest hardcover reissue presents the complete, unabridged text of Mark Twain’s vivid reflections on the great American waterway. The first half of the book functions as a memoir detailing Samuel Clemens’s youthful pre-Civil War apprenticeship and eventual career as an elite steamboat pilot. The second half jumps forward twenty years, following the author as an established writer who returns to travel the river from St. Louis to New Orleans. Through humor, regional folklore, and historical data, the narrative charts the dramatic transformations of riverside towns and laments the steady decline of the steamboat era in the face of rapid industrialization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mark Twain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49722250789114,"sku":"NEE5\/59\/07172026","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/3387\/5450\/files\/IMG_3928_f800a3ee-c578-4197-a7cb-4bdcdc0ed874.jpg?v=1784586102","url":"https:\/\/flippedpages.com\/products\/life-on-the-mississippi","provider":"Flipped Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}