Around the World with Mark Twain

By Robert Cooper

A rollicking road trip with the legendary author and humorist.
 
On July 14, 1895, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, fifty-nine years old and deeply in debt, boarded a night train to Cleveland, launching a performance tour designed to alleviate his financial woes, and, more importantly, resuscitate his alter ego, Mark Twain. The journey took him to Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa, and led to the resurrection of Twain as a celebrity. Equal parts travelogue, social history, and biography, Around the World with Mark Twain paints a decidedly different portrait of Clemens: a more tragic, darker figure who faced financial ruin and personal loss throughout his life. Around the World with Mark Twain delights while deepening our understanding of this magnificent personality.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Apr 12, 2012
• ISBN: 9781611456486

Robert Cooper

Robert Cooper is one of Britain's most senior diplomats. A former special advisor on foreign affairs to Tony Blair, he is currently Director-General of External and Politico-Military Affairs for the Council of the European Union. He is the author of The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century (2003).