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1	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn more books like this by Mark Twain This is the first edition of "Huckleberry Finn" ever to be based on Mark Twain's entire original manuscript - including its first 663 pages, which had been lost for more than a hundred years when they were discovered in 1990 in a Los Angeles attic. The text of the "Mark Twain Library" edition (first published in 1985) has been re-edited using this ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £1.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Adventures of Tom Sawyer more books like this by Mark Twain The titles in "Longman Fiction" are mainly new editions of the most popular titles in the "Longman Simplified English" series, including short stories, modern fiction and classics. They are designed to be suitable for students at upper intermediate level, including those preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate examinations. Each book has ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £1.41! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America more books like this by John M Barry An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, "Rising Tide" tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Life on the Mississippi more books like this by Mark Twain This is Mark Twain's description of life on the Mississippi River, with observations and anecdotes about the culture and society along the river valley. It includes character sketches, historical facts, information and reminiscences of Twain's boyhood and experiences as a steam-boat pilot. Part travel book, part autobiography, and part social ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £4.91! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Tom Sawyer more books like this by Mark Twain A simplified retelling of the classic story of the mischievous 19th-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Beckey Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £3.03! \| first editions
6	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn more books like this by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Introduction by) Newly repackaged and featuring a new Introduction, Twain's classic tales of life on the Mississippi capture both the complexities of American life while regaling the boyhood adventures of two of the most popular characters in American literature. Reissue. see all copies from £5.62! new only from £5.62!
7	Survival in the Ashes more books like this by William W Johnstone Survival in the Ashes the latest entry in William W. Johnstone's phenomenally successful series, finds hero Ben Raines and his ragged band of freedom-fighting guerrillas continuing their courageous struggle to restore nuclear-devastated America to its former glory. see all copies from £5.64! new only from £5.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Huckleberry Finn more books like this by Mark Twain This new series from Wordsworth has students and teachers alike rejoicing. The Interactive Editions combine a Wordsworth Classic text with a CD-ROM. The CD contains complete notes, commentary, extensive self-tests, as well as the complete e-text. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £2.07! \| first editions
9	Minn of the Mississippi more books like this by Holling Clancy Holling As readers follow the adventures of Minn, a snapping turtle traveling down the Mississippi River, they learn about the history of the Mississippi River Valley. Color illustrations accompany the text. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £6.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Mark Twain, Mississippi Writings more books like this by Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell (Editor) The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ... see all copies from £7.65! new only from £7.77! \| first editions
11 view cover	Train Man more books like this by Peter T Deutermann On a dark night, a bridge is blown to smithereens, thunderously plunging a one-hundred-car-train deep into the Mississippi River. In Washington, the FBI scrambles--sending Assistant Director Hush Hanson and agent Carolyn Lang to investigate the deadly act of domestic terror. Hanson is a team player and killer marksman. Lang has an agenda of her ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Last Girls more books like this by Lee Smith (Read by) In their youth, the five main characters of this comic novel took a raft trip down the Mississippi. Now they gather to review old times and compare notes on their lives, which contain heartbreak and anguish, as well as good luck and a measure of happiness. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	The Mystery on the Mississippi more books like this by Kathryn Kenny As Trixie travels down the Mississippi River, someone is shadowing her every move, trying to steal the mysterious graph papers Trixie found in a trash can in her hotel room in Memphis. Why are the papers so important? Could there be more to the childish drawings than meets the eye? see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.86! \| first editions
14 view cover	Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier more books like this by Ray Allen Billington When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's 'Westward Expansion' set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book's reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of Billington and Martin Ridge's fifth edition, with a new ... see all copies from £3.09! new only from £23.38!
15 view cover	The Confidence-Man more books like this by Professor Herman Melville Poorly received when first published in 1857, "The Confidence Man" is now considered Herman Melville's 'most nearly perfect work', and one that occupies a central place in the American literary tradition of masquerade and trickery. Set on April Fool's Day aboard a Mississippi steamer, this powerful and engaging novel, through the conversations of ... see all copies from £2.35! new only from £8.46! \| first editions
16 view cover	Mississippi Solo: A River Quest more books like this by Eddy L Harris Never having canoed before, and with the loan of a friend's boat, Eddy L. Harris sets out to row the length of the Mississippi River--alone. Beautifully captured is the river's culture, the character of its people, as well as a man's remarkable spirit. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.65! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer more books like this by Globe Fearon see all copies from £4.17! first editions
18 view cover	Great Plains more books like this by Walter Prescott Webb This classic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of America and the people who lived there has, since its first publication in 1931, been one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history. Arguing that 'the Great Plains environment...constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have ... see all copies from £1.75! new only from £18.13! \| first editions
19	Old Glory: An American Voyage more books like this by Jonathan Raban see all copies from £1.81! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Show Boat more books like this by Edna Ferber 1926. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's famous novel, Show Boat, tells parallel love stories of two doomed marriages that are set on a Mississippi show boat. Magnolia, the sheltered daughter of the Cotton Blossom's owner, falls in love and runs off to Chicago with a dashing riverboat gambler. Their marriage is wrecked by his love for ... see all copies from £2.78! new only from £25.03! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	The confidence-man his masquerade more books like this by Herman Melville The text of "The Confidence-Man" reprinted here is again that of the first American edition (1857), slightly corrected. The Second Edition features significantly expanded explanatory annotations, particularly of biblical allusions. "Contemporary Reviews" includes nineteen commentaries on "The Confidence-Man," eight of them new to the Second ... see all copies from £1.52! new only from £7.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	The River Devil more books like this by Diane Whiteside Hal Lindsay is a decorated Union Navy hero and a riverboat captain who has built an empire around his Missouri River steamboats. Yet deep inside him lurks the pain of a dark, vicious past - one that has him determined never to marry and have children. It's far better to live alone, finding carnal comfort in the arms of women who will do anything ... see all copies from £5.73! new only from £5.73! \| first editions
23 view cover	La Salle and the discovery of the great West more books like this by Francis Parkman This classic study of the final, failed expedition of famed 17th-century explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle by historian Francis Parkman was first published in 1869. Commissioned by France to explore and govern the Western territory, La Salle's expedition went off course. He and his companions were lost in the wilderness and endured disease ... see all copies from £4.38! new only from £28.75! \| first editions
24 view cover	Swift Rivers more books like this by Cornelia Meigs Poverty and the tempting stories of a wandering Easterner convince 18-year-old Chris to harvest the trees on his grandfather's land and float the logs down the spring floodwaters of the Mississippi to St. Louis. Filled with stories of raft hands and river pilots, this fast-paced novel has all the momentum of the great Mississippi. 1933 Newbery ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.65! \| first editions
25 view cover	Savage Sunrise more books like this by Cassie Edwards The latest historical romance in the bestselling Savage! series--by the author of Savage Mists. Determined to keep slaver Calvin Wyatt from selling his people into bondage, Osage brave Yellow Thunder travels to New Orleans, where he falls under the spell of young, beautiful Ashley Bradley, the only woman who will ever master him--and Wyatt's ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.64! \| signed copies \| first editions

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