His observations were sometimes witty and humorous, but became more sarcastic and sour the closer he got to the Holy Land. It also included another trip to the Black Sea and Odessa before going on to the Holy Land.Īs the trip progressed, Mark Twain critiqued the various cultures and societies he encountered. The trip was originally sold as a Holy Land excursion with stops along the Mediterranean Sea and a train trip to Paris for the Paris Exhibition of 1867. The book is actually a compilation and modification of several humorous columns that Twain sent back to the Philadelphia Press, a newspaper for which he worked at the time.īy all accounts, Innocents Abroad is truly a travel book, based on an actual trip full of actual events that occurred on an old retired Civil War ship, the USS Quaker City. Twain called this trip his "Great Pleasure Excursion" wherein he traveled with a group of Americans through the Holy Land and Europe. The basis for the book, also called The New Pilgrim's Progress, was Twain's journey aboard a chartered vessel named Quaker City. Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad, his first book, which was published in 1869 by The American Publishing Company is a collection of travel stories.
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