The quintessential annotated edition.
A new annotated edition of Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad, with over 1,200 footnotes, eight appendixes, a lexicon, and an index. All 235 illustrations from the 1869 first edition are reproduced, along with all of the original page headers.
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Reading through Trauring's The Innocents Abroad is the equivalent of rediscovering Mark Twain guiding his contemporary readers through the 19th century pleasure excursion trip while Philip Trauring is whispering hints in the reader's ear of what was really happening and how these same places and countries and cities look today.
— Barbara Schmidt, Mark Twain Forum
…the best and most fun edition of The Innocents Abroad to read since the first edition.
— Kevin Mac Donnell, Mark Twain scholar
Twain's fascinating journey finds a new level of accessibility in this volume. A thoroughly well-organized rendition of this classic, snarky work.
— Kirkus Reviews
One the more interesting real stories in The Innocents Abroad was Mark Twain’s interaction with an American colony in Jaffa. Led by a charasmatic preacher named George Washington Joshua Adams (born George Jones Adams), over 120 followers from his church in Maine moved to …