The Innocents Abroad: The New Pilgrims' Progress--Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; ... and Adventures as they appeared to the Author

Book info: The Innocents Abroad: The New Pilgrims' Progress--Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; ... and Adventures as they appeared to the Author (Hardcover, 686 pages) – Cosimo Classics, 1869. Language: English.

"This book is a record of a pleasure-trip... Yet not-withstanding it is only a record of a picnic, it has a purpose, which is, to suggest to the reader how he would be likely to see Europe and the East if he looked at them with his own eyes instead of the eyes of those who travelled in those countries before him."

-Mark Twain (1869)

The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims' Progress (1869), is a humorous travel book based on Mark Twain's letters about his 1867 voyage on the steamboat "Quaker City" to Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land. In a satirical manner, Twain draws a contrast between his own experiences and the contemporary often romanticized guidebooks, which were mostly used by travelers and tourists of those times.

This replica of the original 1869 edition of The Innocents Abroad, with two hundred and thirty-four illustrations by True Williams, was Twain's best-selling work during his life and one of the best-selling travel books of all time.

Editorial Reviews About the Author MARK TWAIN (1835-1910), pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer who became one of America's greatest and most popular writers. Twain was born in Florida, Missouri, and grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, the state which influenced much of his writing. Twain acquired fame for his travel stories such as Life on the Mississippi (1883), and for his boyhood adventure novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).