Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
Mark Twain
Subjects: Equator -- Description and travel, Voyages around the world, Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel, G, I
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Subjects: Equator -- Description and travel, Voyages around the world, Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel, G, I
Downloads: 613
Following the Equator (sometimes titled More Tramps Abroad) is a non-fiction travelogue published by American author Mark Twain in 1897. Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to a failed investment into a "revolutionary" typesetting machine. In an attempt to extricate himself from debt of $100,000 (equivalent of about $2.5 million in 2010) he undertook a tour of the British Empire in 1895, a route chosen to provide numerous opportunities for lectures in English. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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