Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. A TRAMP ABROAD showcases Twain' s unparalleled ability to integrate humorous sketches, autobiographical tidbits, and historical anecdotes in a consistently entertaining narrative. Twain's descriptions of villages, hotel's, hotel customs, restaurant fare, mountains and mountain climbing, art and artists, architecture are joys to read.

Cast in the form of a waling tour through Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy, Mark Twain' s account of traveling in Europe (1880) sparkles with his shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture. 'A Tramp Abroad' is really interesting as a travelogue, a glimpse into 19th century Europe from a sharp and acute observer. Cast in the form of a walking tour through Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy, A Tramp Abroad includes among its adventures a voyage by raft down the Neckar and an ascent of Mont Blanc by telescope, as well as the author' s attempts to study Art - a wholly imagined activity Twain 'authenticated' with his own wonderfully primitive pictures included in this volume. Twain' s account of traveling in Europe, A Tramp Abroad (1880) sparkles with the author' s shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture, and showcases his unparalleled ability to integrate humorous sketches, autobiographical tidbits, and historical anecdotes in a consistently entertaining narrative. These forgeries have become collectible in their own right. It is believed that Field and Sickles went on to falsify more than one hundred Abraham Lincoln documents as well as signatures of numerous other famous figures including Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Robert Louis Stevenson. As a result, Field II used his skills to create 'signed' copies of his father's books, and, thus, more profitable. The younger Field developed the ability to imitate the autographs of the authors his father had collected as well as the signature of his father. After his death, Eugene Field's book collection passed on to his son. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain: 9780140436082 : Books Twain's account of travelling in Europe, A TRAMP ABROAD (1880), sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World. Field's father, Eugene Field (1850-1895), was a newspaper columnist, poet, and book collector. The signatures, though quite convincing, are likely forgeries made by the famed forger Eugene 'Pinny' Field II (1879-1946) and Harry Dayton Sickles, working in tandem. Original brown cloth bound into the back of the book The book appears to be signed by Mark Twain on the title page and Eugene Field on a rear flyleaf. Custom/matching slipcase rubbed on the corners. Rebound in full morocco and decorative endpapers with raised bands. plus a 1-page publisher's advertisement at the rear. First edition, second state with illustration entitled 'Titian's Moses.' From the library of Eugene Field.

A tramp abroad