The Innocents Abroad or the New Pilgrims Progress, Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's, Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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This book is a record of a pleasure-trip. If it were a record of a solemn sc1entific expedition, it would have about it that gravity, that profundity, and that impressive incomprehensibility which are so proper to works of that kind, and withal so attractive. Yet not withstanding it is only a record ofa pic-nic, it has a purpose, which is, to suggest to the reader how he would be likely to see Europe and the East if he looked at them with his own eyes instead of the eyes of those who travelled in those countries before him. I make small pretence of showing any one how he ought to look at objects of interest beyond the sea - other books do that, and therefore, even ifi were competent to do it, there is no need.

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