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Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World Revised ed. Edition, Kindle Edition

by Mark Twain (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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"We sai1ed for America, and there made certain preparations. This took but little time. Two members of my family elected to go with me. Also a carbuncle. The dictionary says a carbuncle is a kind of jewel. Humor is out of place in a dictionary." — Following the Equator
So begins this classic piece of travel writing, brimming with Twain's celebrated brand of ironic, tongue-in-cheek humor. Written just before the turn of the century, the book recounts a lecture tour in which he circumnavigated the globe via steamship, including stops at the Hawaiian Islands, Australia, Fiji Islands, New Zealand, India, South Africa and elsewhere.
View the world through the eyes of the celebrated author as he describes a rich range of experiences — visiting a leper colony in Hawaii, shark fishing in Australia, tiger hunting, diamond mining in South Africa, and riding the rails in India, an activity Twain enjoyed immensely as suggested by this description of a steep descent in a hand-car:
"The road fell sharply down in front of us and went corkscrewing in and out around the crags and precipices, down, down, forever down, suggesting nothing so exactly or so uncomfortably as a crooked toboggan slide with no end to it. . . . I had previously had but one sensation like the shock of that departure, and that was the gaspy shock that took my breath away the first time that I was discharged from the summit of a toboggan slide. But in both instances the sensation was pleasurable — intensely so; it was a sudden and immense exaltation, a mixed ecstasy of deadly fright and unimaginable joy. I believe that this combination makes the perfection of human delight."
A wealth of similarly revealing observations enhances this account, along with perceptive descriptions and discussions of people, climate, flora and fauna, indigenous cultures, religion, customs, politics, food, and many other topics. Despite its jocular tone, this book has a serious thread running through it, recording Twain's observations of the mistreatments and miseries of mankind. Enhanced by over 190 illustrations, including 173 photographs, this paperback edition — the only one avai1able — will be welcomed by all admirers of Mark Twain or classic travel books.

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on November 30, 1835, in the village of Florida, Missouri. He attended the ordinary western common school until he was twelve, the last of his formal schooling. In a span of fifteen years he was successively a typesetter, a steamboat pilot, a soldier for three weeks, a silver miner, a newspaper reporter, and a bohemian in San Francisco known as "Mark Twain." But in 1865, deeply in debt, he acknowledged a talent for "literature, of a low order, i.e., humorous." In the next forty years, he published more than a dozen books and hundreds of shorter works, including his masterpiece, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00GU6GO8A
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dover Publications; Revised ed. edition (September 12, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 12, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 13564 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 339 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 3849674541
  • Customer Reviews:
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    Mark Twain is the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910). He was born and brought up in the American state of Missouri and, because of his father's death, he left school to earn his living when he was only twelve. He was a great adventurer and travelled round America as a printer; prospected for gold and set off for South America to earn his fortune. He returned to become a steam-boat pilot on the Mississippi River, close to where he had grown up. The Civil War put an end to steam-boating and Clemens briefly joined the Confederate army - although the rest of his family were Unionists! He had already tried his hand at newspaper reporting and now became a successful journalist. He started to use the alias Mark Twain during the Civil War and it was under this pen name that he became a famous travel writer. He took the name from his steam-boat days - it was the river pilots' cry to let their men know that the water was two fathoms deep.

    Mark Twain was always nostalgic about his childhood and in 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published, based on his own experiences. The book was soon recognised as a work of genius and eight years later the sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was published. The great writer Ernest Hemingway claimed that 'All modern literature stems from this one book.'

    Mark Twain was soon famous all over the world. He made a fortune from writing and lost it on a typesetter he invented. He then made another fortune and lost it on a bad investment. He was an impulsive, hot-tempered man but was also quite sentimental and superstitious. He was born when Halley's Comet was passing the Earth and always believed he would die when it returned - this is exactly what happened.

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He's funny and makes interesting observations, but 500 pages of his particular brand of insincerity was a bit much I have to admit.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Small Bites of a Delicious Meal...
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This is a fantastic, although difficult, read because of the font and the format and the manner in which it was produced. Wisdom lives inside these pages, but it does take time and a commitment to move through the chapters. I recommend taking small bites, and returning to it many times. It's always fresh, and you can pick up anywhere and feel like you've lost nothing.
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The typesetting on this edition is absolutely tiny. I've never seen a typeset this small. It makes the book almost unreadable.
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The typesetting on this edition is absolutely tiny. I've never seen a typeset this small. It makes the book almost unreadable.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the best Samuel Clemmins ever
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Probably the best Samuel Clemmins ever. The day to day on a cruies ship at the turn of the 20th century... as on he can describe!!
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Rosetwine
5.0 out of 5 stars Enamouring
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2014
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I've already read two-thirds of this book so far and can't help but be enamoured with it. I'd read Mark Twain's first travelogue "The Innocents Abroad" and that is a treasure in itself. (In fact due to its subject matter it should be in the world's heritage books list - if it isn't already!) However in this, his last utterly absorbing travelogue, written 20 years later, I'm really enjoying Twain's smooth and effortlessly sophisticated prose style. It is also fascinating to read of Hawaii, Australia, India, etc He introduces us to Cecil Rhodes in his tales of Australia and from what I saw the book virtually ends with a eulogy to this empire builder since South Africa is his final destination on the tour! He manages to describe everything (even bird songs!) SO well without the aid of pictures and diagrams. His descriptions are utterly brilliant! I have every intention of reading this book again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Following the Equator
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ein großartiges buch, in dem Mark Twain in seiner unnachahmlichen art teil der englischsprachigen welt im ausgehenden 19.jahrhundert beschreibt. bemerkenswert ist, wie unbelastet von in jener zeit üblichen rassistischen vorurteilen er die verschiedenartigen dunkelhäutigen bewohner des damaligen britischen imperiums wahrnimmt und ihre andersartigen kulturen auch durchaus zu schätzen weiß.

Ein buch, dass rundum empfohlen werden kann.
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5.0 out of 5 stars hi,
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I love it.......................!
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Bellypaw
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic account of a world tour
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 3, 2014
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Mark Twain has a unique humour that glides through this book. He goes places and meets people because of his position as a lecturer and famous writer, which he otherwise would not have. And we, the readers, benefit from this. It is a view like no other of selected places around the world. Some leave good memories, some not, like to any other traveller.
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I have good eyesight, but reading this is not easy. I reckon the font size is half that of a standard book, even smaller than small foot notes. That said, if you have good eyesight, wear glasses or have a magnifying glass to hand it's worth persevering as this is a very entertaining read.
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