Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain - Books -  - 9798583012305 - December 18, 2020
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Life on the Mississippi

THE Mississippi is well worth reading about. It is not a commonplace river, but on the contrary is in all ways remarkable. Considering the Missouri its main branch, it is the longest river in the world-four thousand three hundred miles. It seems safe to say that it is also the crookedest river in the world, since in one part of its journey it uses up one thousand three hundred miles to cover the same ground that the crow would fly over in six hundred and seventy-five. It discharges three times as much water as the St. Lawrence, twenty-five times as much as the Rhine, and three hundred and thirty-eight times as much as the Thames. No other river has so vast a drainage-basin: it draws its water supply from twenty-eight States and Territories; from Delaware, on the Atlantic seaboard, and from all the country between that and Idaho on the Pacific slope-a spread of forty-five degrees of longitude.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 18, 2020
ISBN13 9798583012305
Pages 554
Dimensions 127 × 203 × 31 mm   ·   594 g
Language English  

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