Traveling with the Innocents Abroad: Mark Twain's Original Reports from Europe and the Holy Land Mark Twain's Original Reports from Europe and the Holy Land【電子書籍】

＜p＞Here, collected in book form for the first time, are the letters written by Mark Twain on the famous Holy Land Excursion of 1867ーletters that Twain once said would ruin him if published. Twain, a brash young journalist with one book under his belt, was one of seventy-seven passengers on the steamship ＜em＞Quaker City＜/em＞ when it left New York in June 1867, to begin “The Grand Holy Land Pleasure Excursion.” As special correspondent for the ＜em＞Daily Alta California＜/em＞, Twain wrote fifty letters during the next six months, describing in detail the places visited and the sights seen as the pilgrims journeyed from Tangier to Paris, then to Venice, Constantinople, and Bethlehemーwith many stops in between.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Full of sprightly humor and savage satire, these letters also contain some of the most elegant vituperation ever to appear in an American newspaper. Twain later incorporated parts of the letters into ＜em＞The Innocents Abroad＜/em＞, probably the most famous travel book ever writt．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る