In 1867, a California newspaper commissioned Mark Twain to travel to the Holy Lands. The trip provided the humorist with an abundance of material for his satiric classic The Innocents Abroad. A centur
In 1895 Mark Twain started out on a year-long around-the-world lecture tour that formed the basis for Following the Equator. A modern-day journalist re-creates Twain's passage through India and offers
