ABOUT MARK TWAIN
Mark Twain was born in Florida
and spent his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri,
along the Mississippi River.
Three of his most famous books describe people on this great river.
They are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
and Life on the Mississippi.
Indeed, this author loved the river so much that
even his pen name is about the river.
ˇ°Twainˇ± is an old word for ˇ°two.ˇ±
So, toˇ°mark twain,ˇ± is to say that
the water is two fathoms deep.
A fathom is equal to six feet or 1.83 metres.
Twain left school at school at the age of twelve to look for work.