Roughing It (Illustrated)

This ebook contains the original beautiful illustrations from Mark Twain's original version.
In 1872, Twain published a semi-autobiographical piece of travel literature, Roughing It, as a prequel to Innocents Abroad. The book is an account of Twain's journey from Missouri to Nevada, where he joined his brother Orion Clemens, who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, and recounts many of Twain's early adventures out West. It includes accounts of a visit to Salt Lake City, gold and silver prospecting, real-estate speculation, a journey to the Kingdom of Hawaii, and his beginnings as a writer. In his characteristic style, mixing reporting, social satire and tall tales, Twain satirizes American and Western society in the same way that Innocents critiqued the various countries of Europe and the Middle East. This memoir introduces Twain’s rough-hewn humor, which would be seen in his later books, such as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.