Author: Louise Spilker Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 81
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Published in 1901, this work accounts for Louise Spilke's first impressions abroad to Europe in different countries, including Germany, Switzerland, Paris, London, and Scotland. It contains factual knowledge of the places and things that Spilke talks about. She describes the areas beautifully and describes the cultures and people in depth. Spilke also includes various unknown facts and short biographies of the famous personalities that lived there. Excerpt from Schöne Aussicht "For fear some of you may be deceived about this Atlantic, which was so serenely peaceful and angelic in disposition when crossing on board the Hamburg-American liner "Pennsylvania," July 14, 1900, I will record later impressions and tell you what a wild, treacherous person she is. From July 14th to July 26th, was one of the smoothest, most placid mill-ponds you could ever imagine, in spite of the fact that we started on the voyage Friday, the 13th, from the Hoboken dock, where the greatest of sea disasters had taken place but a few hours previous."
Author: Mark Twain Publisher: BookRix ISBN: 3736811624 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 482
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He kept his word. We heard his horn and instantly got up. It was dark and cold and wretched. As I fumbled around for the matches, knocking things down with my quaking hands, I wished the sun would rise in the middle of the day, when it was warm and bright and cheerful, and one wasn't sleepy. We proceeded to dress by the gloom of a couple sickly candles, but we could hardly button anything, our hands shook so. I thought of how many happy people there were in Europe, Asia, and America, and everywhere, who were sleeping peacefully in their beds, and did not have to get up and see the Rigi sunrise—people who did not appreciate their advantage, as like as not, but would get up in the morning wanting more boons of Providence.
Author: John T. Krumpelmann Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3111326217 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 236
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Author: Mark Twain Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1609770617 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 508
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"A Tramp Abroad" is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms of transport as they traverse the continent. The book is the third of Mark Twain's five travel books and is often thought to be an unofficial sequel to the first one, The Innocents Abroad. As the two men make their way through Germany, the Alps, and Italy, they encounter situations made all the more humorous by their reactions to them. The narrator (Twain) plays the part of the American tourist of the time, believing that he understands all that he sees, but in reality understanding none of it.
Author: Louise Spilker
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Author: John T. Krumpelmann
Author: Mark Twain
Author: Mark Twain