Book Review•Storybook｜The Innocents Abroad👉Tours Europe and Asia with Mark Twain

@陈凯西's travel history "Old-School Travel Essentials: The History of Western Travel Guides " 🏷️ introduces the history of Western travel guides. I like this article very much, and at the same time, I also remember a travel journal that I treasured - Mark • Twain's The Innocents Abroad. I bought this book at a second-hand bookstore in Israel. The condition of the book is very old, and it is a paperback version. See below👇 but I still love it. I even took this book with me when I went to many places in Europe and traveled with Mark Twain. Europe.

This book was published before and after Cook's travel book mentioned in the article The History of Western Travel Guides - 1869, although it was twenty years later, it seems to be the same period in the long river of history. . This one of mine is a paperback reissue from 1980, so old. This book is Mark Twain's travels from America to Europe, and all the way from Europe to the Middle East. I grew up reading Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Finn, and I really liked him, but it's "The Innocents Abroad" that really begins to get to know his humorous writing.

First of all, the title of the book is very interesting - "Innocents Abroad", those naive people who travel abroad? Ha ha. Secondly, every step of his footsteps has very cute and funny subtitles, for example: After spending July 4th in the Mediterranean, he wrote two subtitles, one is "Hurry up and 'get used to it'" followed by "No soap" !", watching the beautiful scenery on the sea, don't forget to laugh at other people's English accent 👉 "It's gorgis, ain't it?" The road from France to Italy is even more interesting, after coming out of Florence, the next one The chapter titled "Dante and Galileo," followed by a chapter titled "A City That Doesn't Know Thanksgiving," simply makes readers want to open it up to see which city it is.

Also in the upper right corner is the price of the Shek that was once a long time ago.

Mark Twain and his party went from Italy to Greece, and went straight to the Middle East to the Holy City of Jerusalem. Along the way, Mark Twain made a detailed record of the local customs, humorous and funny, and the English accent alone made a lot of trouble. joke. There was a chapter titled "Do You Wis Zo Haut Can Be?" I pondered for a long time what it meant, but finally I had to see Mark Twain's explanation, it turned out that the tour guide in broken English asked "Do you want to go up there" ?" It's also a pity for these Americans.

The book, on the subject of the pilgrimage to the Holy City, became the best-selling travel guide during Mark Twain's lifetime. No wonder, when I saw Mark Twain's subtitle, I wanted to walk along the road he walked and have a laugh. 😄

Mark Twain's travels in Germany and other places are included in another travel journal - "A Tramp Abroad" (also a funny and bizarre title). This book is also divided into several volumes, with very interesting illustrations, mainly about the travel experiences of Mark Twain and his party in Germany, including the interesting German duel, the famous Heidelberg Castle, and of course, the famous one "The Awful German Language", a long-winded complaint about German's difficult, verbose and super-long vocabulary👇

Two book covers, love the old editions.

The German version of this book was bought at Heidelberg Castle. At that time, I really felt like I met Mark Twain in the castle. Holding a book, I felt like traveling through time and space.

Few people now travel with Lonely Planet in their hands. Ten years ago, they often saw 🤲 holding that book in China. Later, it became less and less because of the popularity of mobile phones. With GPS, it is possible to travel to China. are getting less and less...

Of course, Mark Twain's "travel guide" is different from Cook's manual, which can pinpoint the time to arrive and the price required. He doesn't have these practical tips, and he feels more like his readers. , Future generations can enjoy the words Mark Twain left in the local play.

Interestingly, Mark Twain and his entourage are also considered to be a kind of middle class with better economy. They spend up to five months by boat to Europe, and then embark on a pilgrimage all the way to Jerusalem, which is quite popular. I like to read the travel notes of people at that time, including the ancient Chinese literati who traveled in the mountains and rivers and wrote a poem, as well as the Gide anthology of the Soviet Union. The contrast between longing and reality, and disappointment, is a different experience from turning on GPS to drive somewhere and seeing the scenery in modern times.

I am also among those "Innocents".

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