Innocents Abroad

<b>The Innocents Abroad </b>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 &#8220;New Barbarians&#8221; and the European &#8220;Old World&#8221; provides much comic fodder for Mark Twain&#8212;and a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. Gleefully skewering the ethos of American tourism in Europe, Twain&#8217;s lively satire ultimately reveals just what it is that defines cultural identity. As Twain himself points out, &#8220;Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one&#8217;s lifetime.&#8221; And Jane Jacobs observes in her Introduction, &#8220;If the reader is American, he may also find himself on a tour of his own psyche.&#8221;Read less