Following the Equator: A Journey Around the WorldChronicles Mark Twain's 1895 round-the-world lecture tour where he wrote stories about the people and places he encountered along the way. |
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User Review - MrsLee - LibraryThingIn 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 ... Read full review
Following the Equator (National Geographic Adventure Classics)
User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis 1897 title was the fifth and last of the aging Twain's travel volumes. In it he recounts a global lecture tour undertaken in 1895. You can't go wrong with Twain. Read full review
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| Title | Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World |
| Author | Mark Twain |
| Contributors | Oliver Wendell Holmes Library Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress), Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) |
| Publisher | American Publishing Company, 1898 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | May 5, 2009 |
| Length | 712 pages |
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