The Innocents Abroad: Or the New Pilgrims' Progress

Download or read book The Innocents Abroad: Or the New Pilgrims' Progress written by Mark Twain and published by Digital Scanning Inc. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innocents Abroad began as a series of travel letters written by Mark Twain mainly for the Alta California, a San Francisco paper that sponsored his participation in the trip to Europe and the Holy Land in 1867 aboard the steamship Quaker City. On the excursion from New York to Palestine they traveled a distance of over 20,000 miles by land and sea through France, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Russia, Turkey and Egypt. Through his humorous and insightful writings, Twain describes countries, nations, incidents and his amazing adventures.