Roughing It
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Before the American West was tamed, one man rode straight into its wild heart and came back with a story that changed travel writing forever. Roughing It is Mark Twain's riotous, semi-autobiographical account of his six-year odyssey across the frontier — from Missouri to Nevada, through the silver mining camps of the Comstock Lode, across the Pacific to Hawaii, and back again — chronicling every stagecoach disaster, swindling prospector, and sun-scorched desert mile with the eye of a born journalist and the wit of a natural comedian. Twain's prose here is at its most unbridled and exuberant, blending sharp social satire with vivid documentary detail to paint an unforgettable portrait of mid-19th-century American expansion. The narrative uncovers the myths and absurdities of the pioneering dream — the get-rich-quick fever, the lawless boomtowns, and the breathtaking landscape that dwarfed them all — with an irreverence that cemented Twain's reputation as the defining voice of the American experience. A masterwork of comic travel literature, Roughing It leaves the reader wondering: was the frontier civilising the men who crossed it, or was it the other way around?
Author: Mark Twain
Format: Hardback
Genre: American history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Before the American West was tamed, one man rode straight into its wild heart and came back with a story that changed travel writing forever. Roughing It is Mark Twain's riotous, semi-autobiographical account of his six-year odyssey across the frontier — from Missouri to Nevada, through the silver mining camps of the Comstock Lode, across the Pacific to Hawaii, and back again — chronicling every stagecoach disaster, swindling prospector, and sun-scorched desert mile with the eye of a born journalist and the wit of a natural comedian. Twain's prose here is at its most unbridled and exuberant, blending sharp social satire with vivid documentary detail to paint an unforgettable portrait of mid-19th-century American expansion. The narrative uncovers the myths and absurdities of the pioneering dream — the get-rich-quick fever, the lawless boomtowns, and the breathtaking landscape that dwarfed them all — with an irreverence that cemented Twain's reputation as the defining voice of the American experience. A masterwork of comic travel literature, Roughing It leaves the reader wondering: was the frontier civilising the men who crossed it, or was it the other way around?