Overview
The book features travel yarns that only this best-loved author could spin. With a sharp eye and an even sharper wit, Twain is the quintessential tour guide of the 19th Century. Dispatches showcasing his caustic, gimlet-eyed humour, will take readers on a trot around the globe, from Hawaii to the Holy Land to Berlin (known as 'Europe's Chicago'). The delicious assemblage of 68 tales features Twain's trademark style - a combination of breezy insouciance and droll barbarism - at its very best.
Full Product Details
Author: Mark Twain ,
Peter Kaminsky
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Imprint: Sterling
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 3.90cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.880kg
ISBN: 9781402758690
ISBN 10: 1402758693
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 01 November 2009
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
"""Kaminsky's collection shows that Mark Twain is still our foremost American humorist. He should be on at ten p.m.""--Billy Crystal ""There is no great American writer easier to love than Mark Twain, and--as I realized reading this delicious collection--no part of Twain's oeuvre easier to love than his travel writing. Wandering around exotic places and among foreign people gives him the ideal opportunity to be his uniquely engaging self--not quite an innocent or a tramp but a curious, clear-eyed and totally American chronicler abroad: totally game, bewitched and appalled, funny and astounded.""--Kurt Andersen ""Mark Twain would have been thrilled to know that Peter Kaminsky put this collection together. I know I am, and all Twain lovers will be, too.""--Carl Reiner"
Kaminsky's collection shows that Mark Twain is still our foremost American humorist. He should be on at ten p.m. --Billy Crystal There is no great American writer easier to love than Mark Twain, and--as I realized reading this delicious collection--no part of Twain's oeuvre easier to love than his travel writing. Wandering around exotic places and among foreign people gives him the ideal opportunity to be his uniquely engaging self--not quite an innocent or a tramp but a curious, clear-eyed and totally American chronicler abroad: totally game, bewitched and appalled, funny and astounded. --Kurt Andersen Mark Twain would have been thrilled to know that Peter Kaminsky put this collection together. I know I am, and all Twain lovers will be, too. --Carl Reiner
Author Information
Peter Kaminsky was managing editor of National Lampoon, a Rolling Stone writer and an award-winning columnist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, among others. He is the creator of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, awarded to such luminaries as Whoopi Goldberg, Steve Martin and Billy Crystal.
