Mark Twain in Hawaii by Mark Twain

Mark Twain in Hawaii by Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens had recently adopted his famed pen name of Mark Twain shortly before he landed in the Hawaiian Islands in 1866 to spend four months as a correspondent for the most prominent newspaper on the Pacific Coast. When, in 1872, he needed to supplement the chapters in his personal narrative Roughing It, he drew upon his twenty-five articles for the Sacramento Union and his personal notes to supply the additional recollections here presented.

The views of the Sandwich Islands reported by America's most famous lecturer and beloved novelist in 1866 may differ somewhat from those of the visitor of the 1990s. The Huckleberry Finn of foreign correspondents, however, gives many faithful accounts of old Honolulu, the nobility and their ceremonies, the somnolent islands of Maui, the native sport of surfriding, the City of Refuge on the Kona Coast, and the active volcano of Kilauea. And the light touch of the great humorist is seldom missing.

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ISBN 13	9780935180930
ISBN 10	0935180931
Titel	Mark Twain in Hawaii
Autor	Mark Twain
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Mutual Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	1990-06-01
Seitenanzahl	106
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