Balder Ex-Libris - Twain MarkReview of books rare and missing2024-03-16T01:56:42+00:00urn:md5:aa728a70505b2fae05796923271581c2DotclearTwain Mark - The innocents abroadurn:md5:2ec165bccb9f069dae6704c98eb353ea2013-07-15T19:20:00+01:002013-07-15T19:20:00+01:00balderTwain MarkAmericaNovel <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Twain_Mark_-_The_innocents_abroad_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Twain Mark</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The innocents abroad</strong><br />
Year : 1869<br />
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This book is a record of a pleasure trip. If it were a record of a solemn scientific expedition, it would have about it that gravity, that profundity, and that impressive incomprehensibility which are so proper to works of that kind, and withal so attractive. Yet notwithstanding it is only a record of a pic-nic, it has a purpose, which is to suggest to the reader how he would be likely to see Europe and the East if he looked at them with his own eyes instead of the eyes of those who traveled in those countries before him. I make small pretense of showing anyone how he ought to look at objects of interest beyond the seaother books do that, and therefore, even if I were competent to do it, there is no need. I offer no apologies for any departures from the usual style of travel-writing that may be charged against mefor I think I have seen with impartial eyes, and I am sure I have written at least honestly, whether wisely or not. In this volume I have used portions of letters which I wrote for the Daily Alta California, of San Francisco, the proprietors of that journal having waived their rights and given me the necessary permission. I have also inserted portions of several letters written for the New York Tribune and the New York Herald. THE AUTHOR. SAN FRANCISCO. <strong>...</strong></p>Twain Mark - Roughing iturn:md5:239728a2263321c626b2749aefc7614b2013-07-15T19:12:00+01:002013-07-15T18:16:19+01:00balderTwain MarkAmericaNovel <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Twain_Mark_-_Roughing_it_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Twain Mark</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Roughing it</strong><br />
Year : 1872<br />
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This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science. Still, there is information in the volume; information concerning an interesting episode in the history of the Far West, about which no books have been written by persons who were on the ground in person, and saw the happenings of the time with their own eyes. I allude to the rise, growth and culmination of the silver-mining fever in Nevadaa curious episode, in some respects; the only one, of its peculiar kind, that has occurred in the land; and the only one, indeed, that is likely to occur in it. Yes, take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in the book. I regret this very much; but really it could not be helped: information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious ottar of roses out of the otter. Sometimes it has seemed to me that I would give worlds if I could retain my facts; but it cannot be. The more I calk up the sources, and the tighter I get, the more I leak wisdom. Therefore, I can only claim indulgence at the hands of the reader, not justification. THE AUTHOR. <strong>...</strong></p>