![]() Twains journey starts in Paris, then to England, Scotland, Switzerland, Italy, Vesuvius, Constantinople, Smyrna, and finally ending in The Holy Land. In Twain’s Preface he states that this is not a record of a scientific expedition full of “gravity, profundity and impressive incomprehensibility” but rather it is a record of a “picnic which has a purpose”(xii). ![]() ![]() Twain and Voltaire both brought the world to their readers. Both writers observed the world of their time in a humorous, satirical manner while painting a picture of a civilization that most would not have the fortune to experience through extensive travel. Twain’s writings in Innocents Abroadbring to mind Voltaire’s experiences of the world a century earlier, in 1759, in which he wrote the classic Candide, based upon his world travels. Twain experienced a Europe whose historical monuments and geography are still familiar today, but whose culture and peoples are much different. ![]() ![]() These documented journals of his travels catapulted the author to international fame as they were later published in book form in 1869. In 1868, Mark Twain travelled to Europe aboard the steamship Quaker City and wrote about his experiences in The Alta California of San Francisco and the New York Tribune and only subscribers could read them. ![]()
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