A Tramp Abroad
Twain recounts a walking tour through the Black Forest and the Alps that mostly happens by raft, carriage, and train, spinning a glorious comic travelogue out of German culture, mountaineering mishaps, and his own genial exaggerations. Along the way he skewers everything from the German language—in the famous appendix ‘The Awful German Language’—to Alpine climbing and European art, with irrepressible wit. Part travel book, part tall tale, A Tramp Abroad captures Twain at his funniest and most observant as a wandering American loose in the Old World. A delightful companion of humor and shrewd observation, it remains one of the great comic travel books.
About the Author
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was born in 1835 in Florida, Missouri, and grew up in Hannibal on the banks of the Mississippi. Most of his fiction would later draw on that childhood, sometimes directly. He worked as a printer’s apprentice, then…
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