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Innocents Abroad

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Innocents Abroad

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In 1867, Mark Twain set out from New York City for Europe and the Holy Land on the paddle-steamer Quaker City. The result of that trip was The Innocents Abroad, a travel book unlike any that had gone before it. Irreverent and irrepressible, Twain pokes fun at officious tour guides and
offensive tourists alike. The book offers a glimpse of a major writer when he was young and just beginning to flex his muscles, and also serves as an enduring no-nonsense guide for the first-time traveler to Europe and the Holy Land. The trip stimulates Twain to meditate on how the "new world" is
different from the "old" and engenders reflections on what a society must be like to be thought of as genuinely "civilized." The Innocents Abroad is alternately profound and profoundly entertaining. Twain may find himself exasperated or exhausted--but the story he tells is never dull. It is no
wonder that the book was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic.
Release date Australia
August 1st, 2006
Author
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United States
Imprint
Indypublish.com
Pages
460
Publisher
Indypublish.com
Dimensions
152x229x26
ISBN-13
9781428021808
Product ID
1894885

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