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E-book Title: Innocents Abroad
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description: Preface
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 sea -- other 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 me -- for 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.More... | |
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