Roughing it / by Mark Twain ; with illustrations by eminent artists ; afterword by Scott Russell Sanders.

By:

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Material type: Text

TextSeries: World's best readingPublication details: Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association, c1994.Description: ix, 421 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

0895776286

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DDC classification:

818/.403 B 20

Summary: Excerpt from Roughing It This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pro tentions history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afﬂict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science. Still, there is information in the volume; information con cerning an interesting episode in the history of the Far West, about which no books have been written by persons who were on the ground in person, and saw the happenings of the time with their own eyes. I allude to the rise, growth and culmina tion of the silver-mining fever in N evada - a curious episode, in some respects; the only one, of its peculiar kind, that has occurred in the land; and the only one, indeed, that is likely to occur in it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.-Amazon

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Classics	West Grey Ayton Branch Shelves	818. 403 TWA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		32107000562152

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Excerpt from Roughing It
This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pro tentions history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afﬂict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science. Still, there is information in the volume; information con cerning an interesting episode in the history of the Far West, about which no books have been written by persons who were on the ground in person, and saw the happenings of the time with their own eyes. I allude to the rise, growth and culmina tion of the silver-mining fever in N evada - a curious episode, in some respects; the only one, of its peculiar kind, that has occurred in the land; and the only one, indeed, that is likely to occur in it.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.-Amazon

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