Author: Mark Twai
Publisher: Library of America
Keywords: mississippi, nhead, pudd, wilson, library, america, finn, life, writings, twain, tom, sawyer, mark, huckleberry
Number of Pages: 1126
Published: 1982-11-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0940450070
ISBN-13: 9780940450073

Here for the first time in one volume are the most famous and characteristic of Mark Twain’s works. Through each of them runs the powerful and majestic Mississippi. The river represented for Twain the complex and contradictory possibilities in his own and the nation’s life: the place where civilization’s comforts meet the violence and promise of freedom of the frontier. It was the place, too, where Twain’s youthful innocence confronted the grim reality of slavery. The nostalgic re-creation of childhood in "Tom Sawyer"--"simply a hymn put into prose form to give it a wor

Authors:Mississippi John Hurt,  Stefan Grossma,
Publisher: Alfred Publishing
Keywords: masters, american, blues, guitar, grossman, stefan, john, hurt, book, mississippi
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2007-03-08
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0739043307
ISBN-13: 9780739043301

Arranged for Guitar Tablature & Standard Notation With Chords & Lyrics. Mississippi John Hurt had a fascinating career, originally recording a handful of songs in the late 1920s, and, after disappearing for nearly 30 years, being rediscovered by a new generation of musicians that included Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Stephen Sills. Found in 1963 living in a small town in Mississippi, by an admirer who tracked him down through the lyrics of his 1928 single "Avalon Blues," Mississippi John Hurt was persuaded to go to Washington, D.C. and start a new career. He spent the next three years performing

Author: Anna Ready
Publisher: Lerner Publicatio
Keywords: usa, mississippi
Number of Pages: 84
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $25.26
ISBN-10: 0822541092
ISBN-13: 9780822541097

Introduces the geography, history, people, and environmental issues of Mississippi.

Authors:Kummer, Patricia K.,
Publisher: Capstone Pre
Keywords: nation, one, mississippi
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $22.60
ISBN-10: 0736812482
ISBN-13: 9780736812481

Provides an overview of the state of Mississippi, covering its history, geography, economy, people, and points of interest.

Author: Ben Wynne
Publisher: Interlink Book
Keywords: histories, road, mississippi
Number of Pages: 178
Published: 2007-11-30
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 1566566665
ISBN-13: 9781566566667

Beginning with the state’s earliest settlers, Ben Wynne explores the paradox that is Mississippi-its rich soil and namesake river, yet its vulnerability to natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. It is one of the US’s poorest states, yet has one of the richest cultural legacies. It is the birthplace of the blues and the childhood home of such American icons as Elvis Presley, William Faulkner, Oprah Winfrey, and B.B. King. Wynne sketches Mississippi’s development from primarily native settlements and wilderness to industry-driven cities; examines the importance of slavery

Author: Kevin Sessum
Publisher: St. Martin’s Pre
Keywords: sissy, mississippi
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-03-06
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0312341016
ISBN-13: 9780312341015

Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the South. As he grew up in Forest, Mississippi, befriended by the family maid, Mattie May, he became a young man who turned the word "sissy" on its head, just as his mother taught him. In Jackson, he is befriended by Eudora Welty and journalist Frank Hains, but when Hains is brutally murdered in his antebellum mansion, Kevin’s long road north towards celebrity begins. In a memoir that echoes b

Author: Stephen T. Ro
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: mississippi, fishes, inland
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2002-01-28
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1578062462
ISBN-13: 9781578062461

The deluxe, comprehensive guide to the native species of Mississippi Download Plain Text version Where was the largest bass caught in Mississippi? What streams are sometimes home to the gulf sturgeon? How can an angler tell a grass pickerel from a walleye? In Inland Fishes of Mississippi, Stephen T. Ross answers these questions and many more. Mississippi waters are some of the richest inland fish habitats in the United States. In fact, only four states have more native fish than Mississippi’s 204. Inland Fishes of Mississippi is for anglers and nature lovers who want to learn more about