If you were going to chuck it all and strike out for an exotic foreign destination–no plans, no forwarding address, no regrets–Eastern Europe wouldn’t necessarily be the first destination on your list ...

A new exhibition that will celebrate the 150th anniversary of “one of the best-selling travelogues of all time” is set to open at the New-York Historical Society in New York. Mark Twain and the Holy ...

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by ...

The character of American humor, and its want of resemblance to the humor of Kamtschatka and Patagonia,—will the reader forgive us if we fail to set down here the thoughts suggested by these fresh and ...

TRAVELING WITH THE INNOCENTS ABROAD (324 pp.)—Mark Twain—Edited by Daniel Morley McKeithan—University of Oklahoma ($5). THE ART OF TRAVEL (567 pp.)—Henry James—Edited by Morton Dauwen Za-bel—Doubleday ...

Appraisal: Mark Twain Inscribed Book, from ROADSHOW's Special: Junk in the Trunk. In ROADSHOW's Special: Junk in the Trunk, Francis J. Wahlgren appraises a Mark Twain-inscribed copy of the "The ...

Sacred to the Memory of Adam The American Publisher vol. 3 (1872) (all images are illustrations in the public domain) Years ago — a lifetime ago, it seems — I lived in Israel. For three years I called ...