The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain5/28/2023 He responded with wonder and amazement but also with exasperation, irritation, and disbelief. For the first time he was seeing the great paintings and sculptures of the Old Masters. He was making his first responses to the Old World-to Paris, Milan, Florence, Venice, Pompeii, Constantinople, Sebastopol, Balaklava, Damascus, Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem. His adventures produced The Innocents Abroad, a book so funny and provocative it made him an international star for the rest of his life. So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land. “Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?” His enduring, no-nonsense guide for the first-time traveler also served as an antidote to the insufferably romantic travel books of the period. In June 1867, Mark Twain set out for Europe and the Holy Land on the paddle steamer Quaker City.
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