Twain went round the world lecturing to pay off his creditors, and turned the humiliation into his sharpest travel book: Australia and New Zealand, India at enormous length, South Africa and the Jameson Raid — with the maxims from Pudd’nhead Wilson’s calendar at each chapter head and a steady, unsparing eye on empire.
Twain circumnavigating the globe, and getting angrier about colonialism as he goes. Download the free EPUB.