Roughing It

<b>The celebrated author of <i>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer</i> and <i>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</i> mixes fact and fiction in a rousing travelogue that serves as &#147;a portrait of the artist as a young adventurer.&#148;*</b><br> <b>&#160;</b><br> In 1861 young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a newcomer in the Wild West working as a civil servant silver prospector mill worker and finally a reporter and traveling lecturer. <i>Roughing It </i>is the hilarious record of those early years traveling from Nevada to California to Hawaii as Twain tried his luck at anything and everything&#151;and usually failed. Twain&#146;s encounters with tarantulas and donkeys vigilantes and volcanoes even Brigham Young the Mormon leader come to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting social satire and rollicking tall tales.<br> <b>&#160;</b><br> With an Introduction by Elizabeth Frank*<br> And a New Afterword by Mark Dawidziak