Mark Twain on the move
Subtitle: a travel reader
By: edited and with an introduction by Alan Gribben and Jeffrey Alan Melton.
Contributors: Gribben, Alan.; Melton, Jeffrey Alan, 1962-
Series: Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780817355210
Subjects: Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910 -- Travel; Europe -- Description and travel; Middle East -- Description and travel; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; Hawaii -- Description and travel
Description: Riverboat pilot, journalist, failed businessman (several times over): Samuel Clemens -- the man behind the figure of Mark Twain -- led many lives. But it was in his novels and short stories that he created a voice and an outlook on life that will be forever identified with the American character.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The innocents abroad (1869); title: Roughing it (1872); title: A tramp abroad (1880); title: Life on the Mississippi (1883); title: Following the equator (1897).