One of the most famous travel books ever written by an American, The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain?s irreverent and incisive commentary on nineteenth century Americans encountering the Old World. Come along for the ride as Twain and his unsuspecting travel companions visit the Azores, Tangiers, Paris, Rome, the Vatican, Genoa, Gibraltar, Odessa, Constantinople, Cairo, the Holy Land and other locales renowned in history. No person or place is safe from Twain?s sharp wit as it impales both the conservative and the liberal, the Old World and the New. He uses these contrasts to “find out who we as Americans are,? notes Leslie A. Fiedler. But his travelogue demonstrates that, in our attempt to understand ourselves, we must first find out what we are not.

With an Introduction Michael Meyer and an Afterword by Leslie A. Fiedler

560 pages

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	April 3, 2007
Original release date	2010
ISBN13	9780451530493
Publishers	Penguin Putnam Inc
Pages	560
Dimensions	106 × 171 × 42 mm · 258 g
Language	English
Contributor	Leslie Feidler
Contributor	Michael Meyer

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