Summary:

One of the great derisive monuments to the imbecilities of the
tourist experience, Mark Twain's (1835-1910) account of his tour with
a group of fellow Americans around the sights of Europe is both
hilarious and touching, Twain's exasperation and dismay at the phoney
and exploitative being matched by his excitement and pleasure in the
genuinely beautiful. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both
around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into
ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways
from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of
engaging with writers who saw astounding things: great civilizations,
walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains,
multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books
is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures
were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were
treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

Book Details:

Physical Description: 4.3"x6.8"x0.6"; 0.2 lb; 128 pages
Edition Info: Paperback; 2007-02-01

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