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Among the most popular travel books ever written, here in one volume are the works that transformed an obscure Western journalist into a national celebrity. A hilarious blend of vaudevillian comedy, travel guide, and stinging satire, The Innocents Abroad narrates the progress of the first American organized grand tour of Europe and the Holy Land. Roughing It is a light-hearted account of Mark Twain's real and imagined adventures during the Civil War out West. Accounts of stagecoach travel, Indians, Western dress, food drink, frontier society, Mormons, the Chinese, and 'the code of the West' are mingled with tenderfoot Twain's experiences as prospector, miner, journalist, and boon companion.
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