American vandal : Mark Twain abroad /
Author / Creator: | Morris, Roy, Jr., author. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11240894 |
Summary: | For a man who liked being called the American, Mark Twain spent a surprising amount of time outside the continental United States. Biographer Roy Morris, Jr., focuses on the dozen years Twain spent overseas and on the popular travel books-- The Innocents Abroad , A Tramp Abroad , and Following the Equator --he wrote about his adventures. Unintimidated by Old World sophistication and unafraid to travel to less developed parts of the globe, Twain encouraged American readers to follow him around the world at the dawn of mass tourism, when advances in transportation made leisure travel possible for an emerging middle class. In so doing, he helped lead Americans into the twentieth century and guided them toward more cosmopolitan views. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780674425323 0674425324 9780674416697 0674416694 |