Synopses & Reviews
Travel yarns that only Americas best-loved author could spin.
With a sharp eye and an even sharper wit, Twain is the quintessential tour guide to 19th-century America. Dispatches showcasing his caustic, gimlet-eyed humor will take readers on a trot around the globe, from Hawaii to the Holy Land to Berlin (Europes Chicago”).
The delicious assemblage of 68 tales features Twains trademark stylea combination of breezy insouciance and droll barbarismat its very best.
Review
Kaminsky's collection shows that Mark Twain is still our foremost American humorist. He should be on at ten p.m.”Billy Crystal
There is no great American writer easier to love than Mark Twain, andas I realized reading this delicious collectionno part of Twain's oeuvre easier to love than his travel writing. Wandering around exotic places and among foreign people gives him the ideal opportunity to be his uniquely engaging selfnot quite an innocent or a tramp but a curious, clear-eyed and totally American chronicler abroad: totally game, bewitched and appalled, funny and astounded.”Kurt Andersen
Mark Twain would have been thrilled to know that Peter Kaminsky put this collection together. I know I am, and all Twain lovers will be, too.”Carl Reiner
About the Author
Peter Kaminsky was managing editor of
National Lampoon, a
Rolling Stone staff writer,
New York Magazines Underground Gourmet,” and an award-winning columnist whose work has appeared in
The New York Times, among others. He is the creator of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, awarded to such luminaries as George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Carl Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Lorne Michaels, Steve Martin, and Billy Crystal.