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Innocents Abroad or the New Pilgrims Progress Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land With Descriptions of Countries Nations Incidents
Author: Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American “New Barbarians” and the European “Old World” provides much comic fodder for Mark Twain—and a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. Glee...  more »fully skewering the ethos of American tourism in Europe, Twain’s lively satire ultimately reveals just what it is that defines cultural identity. As Twain himself points out, “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” And Jane Jacobs observes in her Introduction, “If the reader is American, he may also find himself on a tour of his own psyche.”  « less

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ISBN-13: 9780451525024
ISBN-10: 0451525027
Publication Date: 2/1/1966
Pages: 512
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Publisher: Signet Classics
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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