A tramp abroad
Subtitle: Following the equator ; Other travels
By: Mark Twain ; Roy Blount, Jr., editor.
Contributors: Blount, Ro; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Series: The Library of America -- 200
Publisher: Library of America; Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Group; Library of America, The
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1145
ISBN-13: 9781598530667
Subjects: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Trave; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Chronolog; Americans -- Europe -- Fictio; Walking -- Fictio; Voyages around the worl; Voyages and travel; Europe -- Fictio; Equator -- Description and trave
Genres: Chronolog; Fictio
Work titles: Selections.
Description: A tramp abroad (1880) is based on Twain's travels in Europe from April 1878 to August 1879, blending autobiography and fiction. Presented with the author's original sketches, Twain provides a humorous travelogue with commentary on Old World customs, Wagnerian opera, and the German language interlaced with American reminiscences. Following the equator (1897) chronicles Twain's 1895 round-the-world lecture tour, including the Fiji Islands, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, and South Africa. Includes social criticism and accounts of the Black Hole of Calcutta and events in South Africa that would lead to the Boer War.--Adapted from Book jacket.
Table of contents: title: A tramp abroad --; title: Following the equator : a journey around the world -- -- Other travels.; title: The Shah of Persia ;; title: Aix-les-Bains ;; title: Bayreuth ;; title: Playing courier ;; title: An Austrian health factory ;; title: The cradle of liberty ;; title: The Chicago of Europe ;; title: The cholera epidemic in Hamburg ;; title: Down the RhÃ´ne ;; title: The lost Napoleon ;; title: Some national stupidities ;; title: Queen Victoria's jubilee ;; title: Stirring times in Austria -- -- Chronolog