The Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain
Twain's account of an 1867 steamship tour of Europe and the Holy Land is the bestselling travel book of nineteenth century America. It is also a nonstop comic demolition of tourist piety, bad food, and the gap between guidebooks and reality.
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