Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Roughing it
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Roughing It
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother. I coveted his distinction and his financial splendor, but particularly and especially the long, strange journey he was going to make, and the curious new world he was going to explore. He was going to travel! I never had been away from home, and that word "travel" had a seductive charm for me. Pretty soon he would be hundreds and hundreds of miles away on the great plains and deserts, and among the mountains of the Far West, and would see buffaloes and Indians, and prairie dogs, and antelopes, and have all kinds of adventures, and may be get hanged or scalped, and have ever such a fine time, and write home and tell us all about it, and be a hero. And he would see the gold mines and the silver mines, and maybe go about of an afternoon when his work was done, and pick up two or three pailfuls of shining slugs, and nuggets of gold and silver on the hillside.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother. I coveted his distinction and his financial splendor, but particularly and especially the long, strange journey he was going to make, and the curious new world he was going to explore. He was going to travel! I never had been away from home, and that word "travel" had a seductive charm for me. Pretty soon he would be hundreds and hundreds of miles away on the great plains and deserts, and among the mountains of the Far West, and would see buffaloes and Indians, and prairie dogs, and antelopes, and have all kinds of adventures, and may be get hanged or scalped, and have ever such a fine time, and write home and tell us all about it, and be a hero. And he would see the gold mines and the silver mines, and maybe go about of an afternoon when his work was done, and pick up two or three pailfuls of shining slugs, and nuggets of gold and silver on the hillside.
My Watch
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism
Author: Jeffrey Alan Melton
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817311602
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Grounding this study in tourist theory, Melton explores how, in five travel books, Twain captures the birth and growth of a new creature who would go on to change the map of the world: the American tourist."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817311602
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Grounding this study in tourist theory, Melton explores how, in five travel books, Twain captures the birth and growth of a new creature who would go on to change the map of the world: the American tourist."--BOOK JACKET.
Mark Twain's Autobiography
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The Innocents Abroad
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846051764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846051764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Roughing It by Mark Twain
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The celebrated author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn mixes fact and fiction in a rousing travelogue that serves as "a portrait of the artist as a young adventurer."* In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a newcomer in the Wild West, working as a civil servant, silver prospector, mill worker, and finally a reporter and traveling lecturer. Roughing It is the hilarious record of those early years traveling from Nevada to California to Hawaii, as Twain tried his luck at anything and everything--and usually failed. Twain's encounters with tarantulas and donkeys, vigilantes and volcanoes, even Brigham Young, the Mormon leader, come to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The celebrated author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn mixes fact and fiction in a rousing travelogue that serves as "a portrait of the artist as a young adventurer."* In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a newcomer in the Wild West, working as a civil servant, silver prospector, mill worker, and finally a reporter and traveling lecturer. Roughing It is the hilarious record of those early years traveling from Nevada to California to Hawaii, as Twain tried his luck at anything and everything--and usually failed. Twain's encounters with tarantulas and donkeys, vigilantes and volcanoes, even Brigham Young, the Mormon leader, come to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales.
The Writings of Mark Twain: Roughing it
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mark Twain in Hawaii
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Mutual Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher: Mutual Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description