Books with title Innocents Abroad

* Beautifully illustrated with delightful illustrations from early editions, The Innocents Abroad is a superb travel book that humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" 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 and is also one of the best-selling travel books of all time.* Just as accessible and enjoyable for today's readers as it would have been when first published, the novel is one of the great works of American literature and continues to be widely read throughout the world.* This meticulous edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is enhanced with images carefully selected by our team of professional editors.

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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.

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.

Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain Illustrated and UnabridgedInnocents Abroad by Mark Twain was hailed the as “an oasis in the desert of works on foreign travel,” by The New York Herald. It was a great success when first published and remained the bestselling of all Twain’s works throughout his lifetime. It began as a series of travel letters written by Mark Twain while aboard a retired Civil War ship known as “Quaker City” en route to Europe and the Holy Land in 1867 traveling a distance of over 20,000 miles by land and sea through France, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Russia, Turkey, and Egypt. Mark Twain wrote the letters to record his experiences and for publication in the Alta California, a San Francisco paper that sponsored his participation in the trip to Europe and the Holy Land. The book expresses Twain’s humor in describing his view of such places as Rome, Tangier, Damascus. Marseilles, Gibraltar, and Constantinople and his satire toward tourists who rely on travel guidebooks rather than personal impressions to define their travel experiences. The subject alternates between light-hearted chapters and serious passages involving history, statistics, and descriptions of religious relics, artwork, and architecture, and gives vivid details of his tribulations and amusements at sea in viewing of the “outrageous” cancan in Paris, the witnessing the notable sights of Venice, the observing of the grandeur of St. Peter’s, the ascending Vesuvius, and the contemplation of the remains of Solomon’s Temple. The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain is a classic tale that will delight a wide audience, especially longtime fans of the American humorist and anyone who enjoys an entertaining and enlightening travel book. This edition includes all the illustrations from the original publication.

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.

The character of American humor, and its want of resemblance to the humor of Kamtschatka and Patagonia,—will the reader forgive us if we fail to set down here the thoughts suggested by these fresh and apposite topics? Will he credit us with a self-denial proportioned to the vastness of Mr. Clements's very amusing book, if we spare to state why he is so droll, or—which is as much to the purpose—why we do not know? This reticence will leave us very little to say by way of analysis; and, indeed, there is very little to say of "The Innocents Abroad" which is not of the most obvious and easy description. The idea of a steamer-load of Americans going on a prolonged picnic to Europe and the Holy Land is itself almost sufficiently delightful, and it is perhaps praise enough for the author to add that it suffers nothing from his handling. If one considers the fun of making a volume of six hundred octavo pages upon this subject, in compliance with one of the main conditions of a subscription book's success, bigness namely, one has a tolerably fair piece of humor, without troubling Mr. Clements further. It is out of the bounty and abundance of his own nature that he is as amusing in the execution as in the conception of his work. And it is always good-humored humor, too, that he lavishes on his reader, and even in its impudence it is charming; we do not remember where it is indulged at the cost of the weak or helpless side, or where it is insolent, with all its sauciness and irreverence. The standard shams of travel which everybody sees through suffer possibly more than they ought, but not so much as they might; and one readily forgives the harsh treatment of them in consideration of the novel piece of justice done on such a traveller as suffers under the pseudonyme of Grimes. It is impossible also that the quality of humor should not sometimes be strained in the course of so long a narrative; but the wonder is rather in the fact that it is strained so seldom.

The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. When you dive into Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad, you have to be ready to learn more about the unadorned, ungilded reality of 19th century „touring” than you might think you want to learn. This is a tough, literary journey. It was tough for Twain and his fellow „pilgrims”, both religious and otherwise. They set out, on a June day in 1867, to visit major tourist sites in Europe and the near east, including Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, „the Holy Land”, and Egypt. The trip stimulates Twain to meditate on how the „new world” isdifferent from the „old” and engenders reflections on what a society must be like to be thought of as genuinely „civilized”.

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.