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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| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01 - CHAPTER I [The Knighted Knave of Bergen] | 9:59 | |
| 2 | 02 - CHAPTER II Heidelberg [Landing a Monarch at Heidelberg] | 18:28 | |
| 3 | 03 - CHAPTER III Baker's Bluejay Yarn [What Stumped the Blue Jays] | 7:53 | |
| 4 | CHAPTER IV Student Life [The Laborious Beer King] | 10:50 | |
| 5 | CHAPTER V At the Students' Dueling-Ground [Dueling by Wholesale] | 10:16 | |
| 6 | CHAPTER VI [A Sport that Sometimes Kills] | 8:20 | |
| 7 | CHAPTER VII [How Bismark Fought] | 11:42 | |
| 8 | CHAPTER VIII The Great French Duel [I Second Gambetta in a Terrific Duel] | 21:49 | |
| 9 | CHAPTER IX [What the Beautiful Maiden Said] | 10:34 | |
| 10 | CHAPTER X [How Wagner Operas Bang Along] | 17:09 | |
| 11 | CHAPTER XI [I Paint a "Turner"] | 10:35 | |
| 12 | CHAPTER XII [What the Wives Saved] | 10:11 | |
| 13 | CHAPTER XIII [My Long Crawl in the Dark] | 13:11 | |
| 14 | CHAPTER XIV [Rafting Down the Neckar] | 8:41 | |
| 15 | CHAPTER XV Down the River [Charming Waterside Pictures] | 13:14 | |
| 16 | CHAPTER XVI An Ancient Legend of the Rhine [The Lorelei] | 13:50 | |
| 17 | CHAPTER XVII [Why Germans Wear Spectacles] | 16:46 | |
| 18 | CHAPTER XVIII [The Kindly Courtesy of Germans] | 16:43 | |
| 19 | CHAPTER XIX [The Deadly Jest of Dilsberg] | 20:47 | |
| 20 | CHAPTER XX [My Precious, Priceless Tear-Jug] | 14:49 | |
| 21 | CHAPTER XX1 [Insolent Shopkeepers and Gabbling Americans] | 17:48 | |
| 22 | CHAPTER XXII [The Black Forest and Its Treasures] | 23:08 | |
| 23 | CHAPTER XXIII [Nicodemus Dodge and the Skeleton] | 14:57 | |
| 24 | CHAPTER XXIV [I Protect the Empress of Germany] | 13:52 | |
| 25 | CHAPTER XXV [Hunted by the Little Chamois] | 24:48 | |
| 26 | CHAPTER XXVI [The Nest of the Cuckoo-clock] | 20:29 | |
| 27 | CHAPTER XXVII [I Spare an Awful Bore] | 18:31 | |
| 28 | CHAPTER XXVIII [The Jodel and Its Native Wilds] | 21:48 | |
| 29 | CHAPTER XXIX [Looking West for Sunrise] | 10:50 | |
| 30 | CHAPTER XXX [Harris Climbs Mountains for Me] | 21:15 | |
| 31 | CHAPTER XXXI [Alp-scaling by Carriage] | 22:10 | |
| 32 | CHAPTER XXXII [The Jungfrau, the Bride, and the Piano] | 17:15 | |
| 33 | CHAPTER XXXIII [We Climb Far--by Buggy] | 15:33 | |
| 34 | CHAPTER XXXIV [The World's Highest Pig Farm] | 21:40 | |
| 35 | CHAPTER XXXV [Swindling the Coroner] | 26:47 | |
| 36 | CHAPTER XXXVI [The Fiendish Fun of Alp-climbing] | 24:10 | |
| 37 | CHAPTER XXXVII [Our Imposing Column Starts Upward] | 23:42 | |
| 38 | CHAPTER XXXVIII [I Conquer the Gorner Grat] | 25:54 | |
| 39 | CHAPTER XXXIX [We Travel by Glacier] | 15:50 | |
| 40 | CHAPTER XL [Piteous Relics at Chamonix] | 20:23 | |
| 41 | [The Fearful Disaster of 1865] | 11:04 | |
| 42 | [Chillon has a Nice, Roomy Dungeon] | 19:16 | |
| 43 | [My Poor Sick Friend Disappointed] | 19:50 | |
| 44 | [I Scale Mont Blanc--by Telescope] | 18:45 | |
| 45 | A Catastrophe Which Cost Eleven Lives [Perished at the Verge of Safety] | 5:18 | |
| 46 | [Meeting a Hog on a Precipice] | 15:25 | |
| 47 | [Queer European Manners] | 22:15 | |
| 48 | [Beauty of Women--and of Old Masters] | 21:07 | |
| 49 | [Hanged with a Golden Rope] | 19:52 | |
| 50 | [Titian Bad and Titian Good] | 8:54 | |
| 51 | APPENDIX A The Portier | 11:27 | |
| 52 | APPENDIX B Heidelberg Castle | 15:49 | |
| 53 | APPENDIX C The College Prison | 13:39 | |
| 54 | APPENDIX D The Awful German Language | 48:41 | |
| 55 | APPENDIX E Legend of the Castles | 13:18 | |
| 56 | APPENDIX F German Journals | 14:44 |
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