A tramp abroad
(2012)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Barnes & Noble, 2012
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781411467293 MWT15339312, 1411467299 15339312
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. In A Tramp Abroad (1880), written eleven years after the best-selling Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain claims to be mad for adventure. Instead, he is more likely to scale a mountain by telescope or launch a fantasy expedition to conquer a mountain hotel. In the end, Twain weaves observation, folk tales, tall tales, and imagination into a narrative that both celebrates travel and satirizes the traveler
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