La vida en el Misisipi

After his great success The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876-1878), Mark Twain published Life on the Mississippi (1883), the fruit of his experiences as a steam pilot before the Civil War. It is considered the first typewritten original to reach a publisher. Its pages, available to all audiences, are full of anecdotes of the not always simple life on the river, personal memories of Twain and numerous historical events, such as the Hernando de Soto expedition. But perhaps the most important thing about the book is that Twain contributes, if not invent, to the creation of the myth of the Mississippi as the great river, full of stories, of the United States of America. This edition offers an updated translation of Susana Carral and the more than five hundred illustrations that Edmund H. Garrett made for the princeps editio, previously unpublished in Spanish.