Following The Equator V1

Informationen zum Autor Mark Twain , who was born Samuel L. Clemens in Missouri in 1835, wrote some of the most enduring works of literature of American fiction, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . He died in 1910. Klappentext Bound on a lecturing trip around the world, Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to foreign lands in Following the Equator . The first of two volumes, this vivid record of a sea voyage on the Pacific Ocean displays Twain's instinctive eye for the unusual, his wide-ranging curiosity, and his delight in embellishing the facts. The personalities of the ship's crew and passengers, the poetry of Australian place-names, and the success of women's suffrage in New Zealand, among other topics, are the focus of his wry humor and redoubtable powers of observation. Following the Equator is an ecocative and highly unique American portrait of nineteenth-century travel and customs. Zusammenfassung Bound on a lecturing trip around the world! Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to foreign lands in Following the Equator . The first of two volumes! this vivid record of a sea voyage on the Pacific Ocean displays Twain's instinctive eye for the unusual! his wide-ranging curiosity! and his delight in embellishing the facts. The personalities of the ship's crew and passengers! the poetry of Australian place-names! and the success of women's suffrage in New Zealand! among other topics! are the focus of his wry humor and redoubtable powers of observation. Following the Equator is an ecocative and highly unique American portrait of nineteenth-century travel and customs.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Twain
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1996
• EAN: 9780880015189
• ISBN: 978-0-88001-518-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Memoirs, Humour, Travel writing, Social and cultural history, Travel and holiday, True war and combat stories, Biography: writers, Biography: historical, political and military, Australasian and Pacific history, HISTORY: WORLD, HISTORY: Social History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, HUMOR: Form / Essays, HUMOR: Topic / Travel, TRAVEL: General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Military, HISTORY: Australia & New Zealand, Australia and New Zealand / Aotearoa, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Memoirs