In which America's greatest writer accompanies a boatload of often ridiculous, provincial pilgrims on The Tour of Europe and the Holy Land, as pretensions are punctured, much supposedly taken for granted is viewed with a jaundiced eye, and what could be a mere travel book rises to the level of great literature: a microcosm of the entire human comedy.
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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...
Those who have read The Innocents Abroad and those who have not will find equal delight in this volume.
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For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in America and discussed at countless firesides.
Fascinating and often hilarious, this is a complete record of the thoughts, ideas, and observations of the father of American literature.
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Explores the encounter between the Netherlands and the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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