In the canon
A Tramp Abroad
- Form
- Form Travel Writing
- Year
- Year 1880
- Pages
- Pages 400
The premise is a walking tour of Europe, and the joke is that the walking almost never happens. Twain and his friend Harris set out on foot through the Black Forest and the Alps and contrive to arrive by raft, by mule, or by sending Harris ahead to walk it for them.
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