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| Author | Mark Twain |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Travel literature |
| Publisher | American Publishing Company |
Publication date | 1869[1] |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 685 |
| 818.403 | |
| LC Class | PS1312.A1 |
| Preceded by | The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County |
| Followed by | Roughing It |
| Text | The Innocents Abroad, or, The New Pilgrim's Progress at Wikisource |
The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship "Quaker City's" Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents, and Adventures, as They Appeared to the Author is a travel book by American author Mark Twain.[2] Published in 1869, it humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered steamship Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867. The five-month voyage included numerous side trips on land.
The book, which sometimes appears with the subtitle "The New Pilgrim's Progress", became the best-selling of Twain's works during his lifetime,[3] as well as one of the best-selling travel books of all time.[4]
- ^ Facsimile of the first edition.
- ^ Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens) (1869). The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship "Quaker City's" Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents, and Adventures, as They Appeared to the Author; with Two Hundred and Twenty-Four Illustrations. San Francisco, CA and Hartford, Conn: H. H. Bancroft and Company and American Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-64679-383-9.
- ^ Norcott-Mahany, Bernard (14 November 2012) "Classic Review: Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain." The Kansas City Public Library (Retrieved 27 April 2014)
- ^ Melton, Jeffrey Alan (2009). Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism: The Tide of a Great Popular Movement. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-8173-1350-0. Project MUSE book 6659.