Why a Booktrail?
1835 – 1910: The final part of the story behind the creator of Tom Sawyer
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3
What you need to know before your trail
The surprising final chapter of a great American life. When the first volume of Mark Twain’s uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of the great humorist’s life and times. This third and final volume crowns and completes his life’s work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain’s inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. Created from March 1907 to December 1909, these dictations present Mark Twain at the end of his life: receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University; railing against Theodore Roosevelt, founding numerous clubs; incredulous at an exhibition of the Holy Grail; credulous about the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays; relaxing in Bermuda; observing (and investing in) new technologies
Locations
Reset- America/USA - Missouri - Hannibal
- A: Mark Twain Memorial Bridge
- B: Mark Twain Memorial Lighthouse
- C: The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum
Travel Guide
Mark Twain Country
The Mississippi River. His most famous work, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins (and ends) on the mighty Mississippi River. This powerful river flowing south from northern Minnesota some 2,300 plus miles to the Gulf of Mexico is the setting for the adventures of this famous boy.
Hanibal, Missouri
This is the real setting to visit and there is a great deal of interest in their local writer who penned such an iconic book. How about standing on the very bridge named after the writer which crosses the very river he evoked in his adventure stories?
The Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum is a must see.
St. Petersburg, Missouri
The fictitious town of St. Petersburg, Missouri is where Huck Finn resides at the beginning of the novel. It was heavily based on the town the author called home.
Jackson’s Island
The island Huck later moves to. There are many islands in the Mississippi River so take your pick – squint in the Missouri sun and see if you can see Tom and Huck!
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Autobiography of Mark Twain (3)
Destination: Hannibal, Mississippi River Author/Guide: Mark Twain Departure Time: 1835 – 1910
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