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Traveling Mark Twain's America
24-page book with 30 minute NON-readalong audio, $14.95
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It's summertime, the best of times-carefree barefoot days of mischievous fun. Steamboats glide easy and slow, churning river waters in an endless splash and spill. Gleaming brilliant in the sun, they puff the promise of great doings ahead. The captain gives a sign. Whistles blare a hearty hoot. Planks go down for the All Aboard! Packets bulge full of the goods-tales like you wouldn't believe.

From his earliest newspaper days to his life abroad. Meet the young "printer's devil," hail the flying ponies, swift as the wind, pounding trails west for the Pony Express. Laugh at the croaks and jokes of that "Celebrated Frog." Go spelunking in his infamous cave.

From his boyhood in Hannibal to his fatherhood in Hartford; from his own words to his daughter's: "The difference between papa and mama is, that mama loves morals and papa loves cats."

THE BOOK:
Mark Twain's Gazette, "The Cave," "Steamboat A-Comin,"My First Literary Adventure" (excerpts), Family Fun with Mr. Clemens: The Connecticut Yankee At Home, map quotable puzzle, glossary…and more!

THE AUDIO:
Follow in the historic footsteps of Mark Twain down the streets of his Hannibal boyhood home into Tom and Becky's cave, blazing trails west by stagecoach to Gold Rush Country and a home in Hartford.

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