A blow on the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom by organizing a school system, constructing telephone lines, and inventing the printing press.
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Kidnapped by the inventor of an experimental airship, Tom, Huck, and Jim are taken aboard the craft on a transoceanic voyage that ends in the sands of the Sahara Desert--Novelist.
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Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before and after the American Civil War. The book begins with a brief history of the river.