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"We sai1ed for America, and there made sure preparations. This needed but little time. Two people of my children elected to go with me. Also a carbuncle. The dictionary says a carbuncle is a kind of jewel. Humor has gone out of devote a dictionary." — Following the Equator
So commences this classic piece of travel writing, filled with Twain's celebrated make of ironic, tongue-in-cheek laughter. Written right before the switch of the century, the book recounts a lecture tour in which he circumnavigated the globe via steamship, including puts a stop to at the Hawaiian Islands, Australia, Fiji Islands, New Zealand, India, South Africa and in other places.
View the earth through the eye of the celebrated writer as he represents a rich range of experiences — going to a leper colony in Hawaii, shark fishing in Australia, tiger hunting, gemstone mining in South Africa, and riding the rails in India, an activity Twain relished immensely as advised by this explanation of any steep descent in a hand-car:
"The street dropped sharply down in front of us and gone corkscrewing in and out surrounding the crags and precipices, down, down, permanently down, suggesting little or nothing so exactly roughly uncomfortably as a crooked toboggan glide with no end to it. . . . I had developed previously got but one feeling like the impact of that departure, and that was the gaspy impact that needed my breathing away the very first time i was discharged from the summit of any toboggan slide. But in both instances the feeling was enjoyable — intensely so; it was a sudden and enormous exaltation, a merged ecstasy of dangerous fright and unimaginable enjoyment. I believe that this mixture makes the perfection of human pleasure."
A wealth of in the same way revealing observations increases this consideration, along with perceptive descriptions and discussions of people, climate, nature, indigenous cultures, religious beliefs, traditions, politics, food, and a great many other topics. Despite its jocular build, this book has a serious thread running through it, recording Twain's observations of the mistreatments and miseries of mankind. Improved by over 190 illustrations, including 173 images, this paperback release — the only person avai1able — will be welcomed by all admirers of Mark Twain or typical travel books.
