Description
"The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad."
In one of the greatest travel books of all time, Mark Twain wittily describes his 1867 voyage through Europe and the Holy Land on the retired Civil War ship the Quaker City with a group of fellow Americans.
Passing through Paris, Milan, Venice, Constantinople, and many other cities along the way, Twain observes the culture clash between New and Old Worlds, the profiteering of wily local inhabitants, a peculiar obsession with and exploitation of history, and the American travelers' bafflement at a strange world beyond the limits of their own experience.
ISBN:9781788884006
