Its my pleasure to have miriam horn joining us this evening, the author of two previous books including the bestseller earth to peopler. She works at the Environmental Defense fund. Miriam previously worked for the u. S. Forest service and spent 15 years writing numerous newspaper articles and for magazines including the new york times, u. S. News world report, smith soap january and vanity fair. Smithsonian. Tonight were celebrating rancher, farmer, fisherman, its about conservation heroes of the heartland. Joining miriam in conversation, were glad to have ian frazier, best selling author. But first, to tell us a little bit about her book, please welcome miriam horn. [applause] thank you, kaylen, and thank you, eddie sutton, for welcoming us to this incredible room at the strand and for keeping the strand such a vital part of our lives. Thank you, ian frazier, for joining me here. I have been a group by of ians groupie of ians for 25 years since i first read great plains. If you haven
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, also called The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, novel by Mark Twain, published in the United Kingdom in 1884 and in the United States in 1885. The book’s narrator is Huckleberry Finn, a youngster whose artless vernacular speech is admirably adapted to detailed and poetic descriptions of scenes, vivid representations of characters, and narrative renditions that are both broadly comic and subtly ironic. Huck runs away from his abusive father and, with his companion, the runaway slave Jim, makes a long and frequently interrupted voyage down the Mississippi River on a raft. During the journey Huck encounters