travelogue

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIN THE SOUTH SEAS

23 April 2022

The impediment of tongues was one that I particularly over-estimated.  The languages of Polynesia are easy to smatter, though hard to speak with elegance.  And they are extremely similar, so that a pe

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIN THE SOUTH SEAS

23 April 2022

For nearly ten years my health had been declining; and for some while before I set forth upon my voyage, I believed I was come to the afterpiece of life, and had only the nurse and undertaker to expec

Mark TwainTHE INNOCENTS ABROAD

23 April 2022

Occasionally, during the following month, I dropped in at 117 Wall Street to inquire how the repairing and refurnishing of the vessel was coming on, how additions to the passenger list were averaging,

Mark TwainTHE INNOCENTS ABROAD

23 April 2022

For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in America and discussed at countless firesides. It was a novelty in the way of excur