Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Mark Twain

American Publishing Company, 1898 - Australia - 712 pages

Fascinating humorous account of 1897 voyage to Hawaii, Australia, India, New Zealand, etc. Ironic, bemused reports on peoples, customs, climate, flora and fauna, politics, much more. 197 illustrations.

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User Review  - MrsLee - LibraryThing

In the early 1900s, Mark Twain took a journey around the equator, visiting various countries and lecturing there. This is somewhat of his journal, but is mostly composed of his thoughts after the ...

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User Review  - JBreedlove - LibraryThing

A great slog of a bathroom book. Casual 19th century racism of a genial sort. But great travel insights from another time.

Contents

• I: 25
• II: 35
• III: 48
• IV: 65
• V: 77
• VI: 83
• VII: 91
• VIII: 99
• IX: 109
• X: 119
• XI: 124
• XII: 132
• XIII: 137
• XIV: 151
• XV: 156
• XVI: 161
• XVII: 170
• XVIII: 176
• XIX: 184
• XX: 195
• XXI: 206
• XXII: 214
• XXIII: 223
• XXIV: 230
• XXV: 241
• XXVI: 251
• XXVII: 256
• XXVIII: 268
• XXIX: 279
• XXX: 285
• XXXI: 290
• XXXII: 297
• XXXIII: 304
• XXXIV: 310
• XXXV: 316
• XXXVI: 322
• XXXVII: 329
• XXXVIII: 343
• XXXIX: 355
• XL: 367
• XLI: 377
• XLII: 384
• XLIII: 390
• XLIV: 398
• XLV: 408
• XLVI: 424
• XLVII: 435
• XLVIII: 445
• XLIX: 457
• L: 473
• LI: 482
• LII: 494
• LIII: 505
• LIV: 515
• LV: 522
• LVI: 533
• LVII: 542
• LVIII: 547
• LIX: 565
• LX: 580
• LXI: 595
• LXII: 607
• LXIII: 620
• LXIV: 628
• LXV: 642
• LXVI: 652
• LXVII: 665
• LXVIII: 684
• LXIX: 697
• LXX: 708

About the author

Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World; Bibliolife Reproduction Series
• Author: Mark Twain
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: American Publishing Company, 1898
• Original from: the New York Public Library
• Digitized: May 5, 2009
• ISBN: 0404015778, 9780404015770
• Length: 712 pages