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Publisher
The Floating PresseBook ISBN
9781775452430
Year
2011Table of contents
- Title
- Contents
- The 'Body of the Nation'
- Chapter 1 - The River and its History
- Chapter 2 - The River and its Explorers
- Chapter 3 - Frescoes from the Past
- Chapter 4 - The Boys' Ambition
- Chapter 5 - I Want to Be a Cub-Pilot
- Chapter 6 - A Cub-Pilot's Experience
- Chapter 7 - A Daring Deed
- Chapter 8 - Perplexing Lessons
- Chapter 9 - Continued Perplexities
- Chapter 10 - Completing My Education
- Chapter 11 - The River Rises
- Chapter 12 - Sounding
- Chapter 13 - A Pilot's Needs
- Chapter 14 - Rank and Dignity of Piloting
- Chapter 15 - The Pilots' Monopoly
- Chapter 16 - Racing Days
- Chapter 17 - Cut-Offs and Stephen
- Chapter 18 - I Take a Few Extra Lessons
- Chapter 19 - Brown and I Exchange Compliments
- Chapter 20 - A Catastrophe
- Chapter 21 - A Section in My Biography
- Chapter 22 - I Return to My Muttons
- Chapter 23 - Traveling Incognito
- Chapter 24 - My Incognito is Exploded
- Chapter 25 - From Cairo to Hickman
- Chapter 26 - Under Fire
- Chapter 27 - Some Imported Articles
- Chapter 28 - Uncle Mumford Unloads
- Chapter 29 - A Few Specimen Bricks
- Chapter 30 - Sketches by the Way
- Chapter 31 - A Thumb-Print and What Came of It
- Chapter 32 - The Disposal of a Bonanza
- Chapter 33 - Refreshments and Ethics
- Chapter 34 - Tough Yarns
- Chapter 35 - Vicksburg During the Trouble
- Chapter 36 - The Professor's Yarn
- Chapter 37 - The End of the 'Gold Dust'
- Chapter 38 - The House Beautiful
- Chapter 39 - Manufactures and Miscreants
- Chapter 40 - Castles and Culture
- Chapter 41 - The Metropolis of the South
- Chapter 42 - Hygiene and Sentiment
- Chapter 43 - The Art of Inhumation
- Chapter 44 - City Sights
- Chapter 45 - Southern Sports
- Chapter 46 - Enchantments and Enchanters
- Chapter 47 - Uncle Remus and Mr. Cable
- Chapter 48 - Sugar and Postage
- Chapter 49 - Episodes in Pilot Life
- Chapter 50 - The 'Original Jacobs'
- Chapter 51 - Reminiscences
- Chapter 52 - A Burning Brand
- Chapter 53 - My Boyhood's Home
- Chapter 54 - Past and Present
- Chapter 55 - A Vendetta and Other Things
- Chapter 56 - A Question of Law
- Chapter 57 - An Archangel
- Chapter 58 - On the Upper River
- Chapter 59 - Legends and Scenery
- Chapter 60 - Speculations and Conclusions
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Appendix D
- Endnotes
