Following the Equator

Mark Twain circles the globe on a lecture tour, notebook in hand, turning ocean crossings, colonial outposts and human folly into wry, watchful travel writing edged with anger.

At a glance In middle age and deep in debt, Mark Twain set off around the world to lecture his way… What it's about Following the Equator records Twain's 1895-96 voyage across the Pacific… It is a travelogue in the loosest sense, a loose-jointed chronicle of ships and… India draws his fullest attention, its heat and colour and contradictions filling…

Following the Equator records Twain's 1895-96 voyage across the Pacific and Indian oceans, through Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, India and South Africa.