# The Innocents Abroad

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The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress, is a travel book by American author Mark Twain published in 1869 which humorously chronicles what Twain called his “Great Pleasure Excursion” on board the chartered vessel Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867. It was the best-selling of Twain's works during his lifetime, as well as one of the best-selling travel books of all time.
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THE
INNOCENTS ABROAD,
OR
THE NEW PILGRIMS’ PROGRESS;
BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE STEAMSHIP QUAKER CITY’S PLEASURE EXCURSION TO EUROPE AND THE HOLY LAND: WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, INCIDENTS AND ADVENTURES, AS THEY APPEARED. TO THE A U T H O R.
WITH TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS,
BY MARK TWAIN, (SAMUEL L. CLEMENS.)
(ISSUED BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY, AND NOT FOR SALE IN THE BOOK-STORES, RESIDENTS OF ANY STATE DESIRING A COPY SHOULD ADDRESS THE PUBLISHERS, AND AN AGENT WILL CALL UPON THEM.)
HARTFORD, CONN.: AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. BLISS & CO., NEWARK, N. J.; R. W. BLISS & CO., TOLEDO, OHIO. F. G. GILMAN & CO., CHICAGO. ILL.; NETTLETON & CO., CINCINNATI, F. A. HUTCHINSON & CO., ST. LOUIS, MO. H. H. BANCROFT AND COMPANY, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 1869.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut.
To My Most Patient Reader and Most Charitable Critic, MY AGED MOTHER, This Volume is Affectionately Inscribed.
​ THE QUAKER CITY IN A STORM. (Page 62)
PREFACE.
This book is a record of a pleasure-trip. If it were a record of a solemn scientific expedition, it would have about it that gravity, that profundity, and that impressive incomprehensibility which are so proper to works of that kind, and withal so attractive. Yet notwithstanding it is only a record of a pic-nic, it has a purpose, which is to suggest to the reader how he would be likely to see Europe and the East if he looked at them with his own eyes instead of the eyes of those who traveled in those countries before him. I make small pretense of showing anyone how he ought to look at objects of interest beyond the sea—other books do that, and therefore, even if I were competent to do it, there is no need.
I offer no apologies for any departures from the usual style of travel-writing that may be charged against me—for I think I have seen with impartial eyes, and I am sure I have written at least honestly, whether wisely or not.
In this volume I have used portions of letters which I wrote for the Daily Alta California, of San Francisco, the proprietors of that journal having waived their rights and given me the necessary permission. I have also inserted portions of several letters written for the New York Tribune and the New York Herald.
THE AUTHOR.
San Francisco, 1869.
[List of Illustrations]
CONTENTS.
​ THE PILGRIM’S VISION.
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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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