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Mark Twain sets out on a walking tour of Europe with his friend 'Harris' and mostly avoids walking, taking trains, carriages and rafts instead. In Germany he…
Mark Twain sets out on a walking tour of Europe with his friend 'Harris' and mostly avoids walking, taking trains, carriages and rafts instead. In Germany he watches students duel in Heidelberg and floats down the Neckar on a raft; in Switzerland he climbs the Riffelberg with a huge expedition of guides and mules; and along the way he tells tall tales, such as the story of the blue jay who tries to fill a house with acorns, and adds the famous essay 'The Awful German Language'.
Context and significance
Twain published the book in 1880, after a trip of 1878 with his friend Joseph Twichell. This edition reproduces the engravings of the first edition. Read Twain's The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It.
About the author
Samuel Clemens (1835–1910) grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi, and worked as a printer's apprentice, a steamboat pilot, a silver prospector in Nevada and a newspaper reporter before he became Mark Twain. A comic story about a jumping frog made his name in 1865, and his lectures and travel books made him the most famous American writer of his time.