Stanfords Travel Classics: Innocents Abroad

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While on a tour of Europe and the Middle East in 1867, Twain wrote a series of travel letters which form the basis of The Innocents Abroad. Journeying from New York to Egypt via France, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Russia, Turkey and the Holy Land, Twain observed and lampooned his companions and the locals with his typically caustic and incisive commentary. In frequently humorous, sometimes grotesque detail, Twain records the day-to-day ups and downs of discoverint the truth about people and places.