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Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Mark Twain

Facing bankruptcy after a failed business investment, the sixty-year-old Twain embarked on a lecture tour across the British Empire to escape $100,000 in debt.

"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World" by Mark Twain is a travelogue. Facing bankruptcy after a failed business investment, the sixty-year-old Twain embarked on a lecture tour across the British Empire to escape $100,000 in debt.

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A man may have no bad habits and have worse.

The starting point of this lecturing-trip around the world was Paris, where we had been living a year or two.

We sailed for America, and there made certain preparations. This took but little time. Two members of my family elected to go with me. Also a carbuncle. The dictionary says a carbuncle is a kind of jewel. Humor is out of place in a dictionary.

We started westward from New York in midsummer, with Major Pond to manage the platform-business as far as the Pacific. It was warm work, all the way, and the last fortnight of it was suffocatingly smoky, for in Oregon and British Columbia the forest fires were raging. We had an added week of smoke at the seaboard, where we were obliged to wait awhile for our ship. She had been getting herself ashore in the smoke, and she had to be docked and repaired.

We sailed at last; and so ended a snail-paced march across the continent, which had lasted forty days.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I.
  2. 02Chapter II.
  3. 03Chapter III.
  4. 04Chapter IV.
  5. 05Chapter V.
  6. 06Chapter VI.
  7. 07Chapter VII.
  8. 08Chapter VIII.
  9. 09Invocation.
  10. 10Chapter IX.
  11. 11Chapter X.
  12. 12Chapter XI.
  13. 13Chapter XII.
  14. 14Chapter XIII.
  15. 15Chapter XIV.
  16. 16Chapter XV.
  17. 17Chapter XVI.
  18. 18Chapter XVII.
  19. 19Chapter XVIII.
  20. 20Chapter XIX.
  21. 21Chapter XX.
  22. 22Chapter XXI.
  23. 23Chapter XXII.
  24. 24Chapter XXIII.
  25. 25Chapter XXIV.
  26. 26Chapter XXV.
  27. 27Chapter XXVI.
  28. 28Chapter XXVII.
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII.
  30. 30Chapter Xxvix.
  31. 31Chapter XXX.
  32. 32Chapter XXXI.
  33. 33Chapter XXXII.
  34. 34Chapter XXXIII.
  35. 35XXXIV.
  36. 36Chapter XXXV.
  37. 37Chapter XXXVI.
  38. 38William Upson.
  39. 39A Sweltering Day in Australia.
  40. 40Chapter XXXVII.
  41. 41Chapter XXXVIII.
  42. 42Chapter XXXIX.
  43. 43Chapter XL.
  44. 44Chapter XLI.
  45. 45Chapter XLII.
  46. 46Chapter XLIII.
  47. 47Chapter XLIV.
  48. 48Chapter XLV.
  49. 49Chapter XLVI.
  50. 50Chapter XLVII.
  51. 51Chapter XLVIII.
  52. 52Chapter XLIX.
  53. 53Chapter L.
  54. 54Chapter LI.
  55. 55Chapter LII.
  56. 56Chapter LIII.
  57. 57Chapter LIV.
  58. 58Chapter LV.
  59. 59Chapter LVI.
  60. 60Chapter LVII.

About this edition

Author
Mark Twain
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
674 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers