Mississippi River

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Twain, Mark

fromVintage classics (London, England)

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Huckleberry Finn is a young boy in the 1840's, who runs away from home, and floats down the Mississippi River. He meets a run away slave named Jim and the two undertake a series of adventures. As the story progresses the duo exploit an array of episodic enterprises, while Huckle…

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Twain, Mark, Elliott, Emory

fromOxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

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Enormously influential in the development of American literature, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remains a controversial novel at the centre of impassioned critical debate. This edition discusses all the current issues and the evolution of Mark Twain's penetrating genius.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Twain, Mark, Elliott, Emory

fromOxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

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Huckleberry Finn, an abused outcast, rafts with Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River, where they have a variety of experiences.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Twain, Mark

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Huckleberry Finn, an abused outcast, rafts with Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River, where they have a variety of experiences.

The confidence-man: his masquerade

by Melville, Herman, Branch, Watson G., (Watson Gailey)

fromThe writings of Herman Melville

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Long considered Melville's strangest novel, The Confidence-Man is a comic allegory aimed at the optimism and materialism of mid-nineteenth century America. A shape-shifting Confidence-Man approaches passengers on a Mississippi River steamboat and, winning over his not-quite-inno…

Marquette and Jolliet

by Petrie, Kristin

fromExplorers

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This book examines the lives and accomplishments of Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, French explorers who introduced Europeans to the Mississippi River.

Marquette and Jolliet

by Petrie, Kristin

fromExplorers

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This book examines the lives and accomplishments of Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, French explorers who introduced Europeans to the Mississippi River.

Although the Lower Mississippi River has been intensively studied, few studies have investigated meandering processes in the river when the channel was considered to be relatively free of major human disturbance. This research is significant in that it provides a detailed examin…

We investigated the relationship between river hydrology and least tern (Sterna antillarum athalassos) reproductive success on the Lower Mississippi River between Cairo, Illinois and Caruthersville, Missouri from 1986 through 1992. We also investigated least tern foraging behavi…

The dissertation is about power and the landscape that power produces. It explicates a paradox of modernity, which is this: how one of the most vulnerable places to sea-level rise organizes its economy and culture around extractive thinking and the production of fossil fuels. To…

This study utilized a new database of levee failures along 685 km of the Middle and Lower Mississippi River from St. Louis, MO to Memphis, TN during the past 120 years. The goals of this investigation were to: (1) identify the relative importance of geologic and geomorphic facto…