Mark
Twain
Documentary
(4x60
min.)
by KEN
BURNS
A
profile of the remarkable life and times of Americašs greatest writer,
Samuel Clemens, known - and beloved - to the world as Mark Twain.
It will follow his rise from a hardscrabble youth in Missouri; his
wanderings as a printeršs apprentice, Mississippi riverboat pilot, Nevada
prospector, California journalist, and humorist on the lecture circuit;
his writing, his tours of Europe, Australia, and other parts of the globe,
becoming by his death one of the first truly world-wide celebrities.