Roughing It

These memoirs recount the writer and humorist's scuffling years, during which he beat a path across the American West and all the way to Hawaii. His spirited narrative relates a series of triumphs and misadventures and profiles a many-faceted succession of personalities and locales: the stage drivers and desperadoes of the Great Plains; Mormon society; the mines and miners of Nevada; the climate and characteristics of San Francisco; and the amusing and unexpected traits of Sandwich Island civilization. Twain finds drollery in every corner of his travels, but the sincerity and humanity of his reminiscences provide a realistic vision of now-vanished worlds.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 06/27/2003
ISBN: 9780486427041
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.26h x 6.38w x 0.76d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 60044 / Roughing It
Reading Level: 9.8 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 30