{"product_id":"mark-twain-the-world-and-me-following-the-equator-then-and-now-9780817359676","title":"Mark Twain the World and Me Following the Equator","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollows Mark Twain's last lecture tour as he wound his way through the British Empire in 1895-1896. Deftly blending history, biography, literary criticism, reportage, and travel memoir, Susan Harris gives readers a unique take on one of America's most widely studied writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMark Twain, the World, and Me\u003c\/i\u003e, Susan Harris shows great skill in describing both the pull and the personal stakes that brought her into such a sustained, fruitful engagement with Mark Twain - a cultural icon who seems to radiate 'unlikeness' with regard to her own roots and upbringing. There's no self-indulgence here; instead, we see the high-risk adventure that informs the best literary scholarship.\" - Bruce Michelson, author of \u003ci\u003ePrinter's Devil: Mark Twain and the American Publishing Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This enormously compelling memoir of Harris's attempt to retrace Twain's travels during his 1895-1986 round-the-world lecture tour is more than simply an engaging work of creative nonfiction, it might just be the best book-length work of scholarship yet written on Twain's \u003ci\u003eFollowing the Equator\u003c\/i\u003e.\" - Joseph Csicsila, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eHeretical Fictions: Religion in the Literature of Mark Twain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIllustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMe, World, Twain: An Introduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Pilgrimage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Pollution: A Narrative\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Money Matters, Or, Gifts for the Dead\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Will the Real Savages Please Stand Up?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Dreaming\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Staring at Animals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Chameleons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Coda\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038585094487,"sku":"9780817359676","price":23.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780817359676.jpg?v=1750940767","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mark-twain-the-world-and-me-following-the-equator-then-and-now-9780817359676","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}