Enables travelers to discover the joy of traveling with children in Europe by offering tips on planning, packing, transportation, accomodations, money, and food
Mark Twain's voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867 produced The Innocents Abroad, a book so funny and provocative it made him an international star for the rest of his life.
The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land.
Twain describes his experiences traveling in Europe and the Middle East, and pokes fun at tourists and tour guides.
As the story takes us from France to Rome to Jerusalem, we discover truths about our world and its inhabitants, seen through Twain’s uniquely humorous lens.
The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress
Based on a series of letters Mark Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent, The Innocents Abroad (1869) is a burlesque of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth ...
Those who have read The Innocents Abroad and those who have not will find equal delight in this volume.
Successor to Twain's first collection of travel memoirs takes a second look at Europe. In "A Tramp Abroad," Twain's abundant humor waxes as freely as ever; this time, however, his...
Martin Indyk draws on his many years of intense involvement in the region to provide the inside story of the last time the United States employed sustained diplomacy to end the Arab-Israeli conflict and change the behavior of rogue regimes ...
Contributors include Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Pico Iyer, John Berendt, Alexander McCall Smith and Jane Smiley.