Following the Equator V1

<p>Bound on a lecturing trip around the world Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to foreign lands in <em>Following the Equator</em>. The first of two volumes this vivid record of a sea voyage on the Pacific Ocean displays Twain's instinctive eye for the unusual his wide-ranging curiosity and his delight in embellishing the facts. </p><p>The personalities of the ship's crew and passengers the poetry of Australian place-names and the success of women's suffrage in New Zealand among other topics are the focus of his wry humor and redoubtable powers of observation. <em>Following the Equator</em> is an ecocative and highly unique American portrait of nineteenth-century travel and customs.