Notes on Publication
Notes On Publication
The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Tramp Abroad, by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Title: A Tramp Abroad
Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Release Date: June 19, 2004 [EBook #119]
The HTML version was produced by David Widger.
First published in 1880
From CHAPTER I [The Knighted Knave of Bergen]:
One day it occurred to me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake a journey through Europe on foot. After much thought, I decided that I was a person fitted to furnish to mankind this spectacle. So I determined to do it. This was in March, 1878.
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Toward the middle of April we sailed in the HOLSATIA, Captain Brandt, and had a very peasant trip, indeed.
After a brief rest at Hamburg, we made preparations for a long pedestrian trip southward in the soft spring weather, but at the last moment we changed the program, for private reasons, and took the express-train.