The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain Taschenbuch

The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it the collision of the American New Barbarians” and the European Old World” provides much comic fodder for Mark Twain—and a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. Gleefully skewering the ethos of American tourism in Europe Twain's lively satire ultimately reveals just what it is that defines cultural identity. As Twain himself points out Broad wholesome charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the ear th all one's lifetime.” And Jane Jacobs observes in her Introduction If the reader is American he may also find himself on a tour of his own psyche.”