| Roughing It Contributor(s): Twain, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486427048 ISBN-13: 9780486427041 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2003 Annotation: These memoirs recount the writer and humorist's scuffling years with spirited travels across the American West and all the way to Hawaii. From the stage drivers and desperadoes of the Great Plains and the mines and miners of Nevada to the climate and characteristics of San Francisco and the amusing and unexpected traits of Sandwich Island civilization. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Travel | United States - West - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2003043803 |
| Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.38" W x 8.26" (0.72 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 60044 Reading Level: 9.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 30.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These memoirs recount the writer and humorist's scuffling years, during which he beat a path across the American West and all the way to Hawaii. His spirited narrative relates a series of triumphs and misadventures and profiles a many-faceted succession of personalities and locales: the stage drivers and desperadoes of the Great Plains; Mormon society; the mines and miners of Nevada; the climate and characteristics of San Francisco; and the amusing and unexpected traits of Sandwich Island civilization. Twain finds drollery in every corner of his travels, but the sincerity and humanity of his reminiscences provide a realistic vision of now-vanished worlds. |