Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World - Softcover

Twain, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1975994515 ISBN 13: 9781975994518

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Following the Equator is the 1897 travelogue by the famous American author Mark Twain. Twain wrote the book about a tour he took of the British Empire in 1895 in order to pay for a substantial debt he owed on a failed investment of the typesetting machine.
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About this title

About the Author

After the Civil War, Samuel Clemens (1835-1910) left his small town to seek work as a riverboat pilot. As Mark Twain, the Missouri native found his place in the world. Author, journalist, lecturer, wit, and sage, Twain created enduring works that have enlightened and amused readers of all ages for generations.

From AudioFile

When Mark Twain took off by ship for a round-the-world lecture tour, he took along a sharp eye, a notebook, and his renowned wit. Michael Kevin reads Twain's narrative of his experiences with a Southern-inflected drawl and an unhurried pace that sound just right. He also offers amusing individual character shadings for many of Twain's fellow passengers, whom the great writer often quotes as well as skewers. The book is full of everything from onboard whist games to tiger hunting. Twain's opinions are many, often mercilessly funny, and frequently ahead of their time--except when he is suddenly of his time. The result is a fully developed self-portrait, nineteenth-century mores and all. A.C.S. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1975994515
• ISBN 13: 9781975994518
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Anderson Taylor