One day it occurred to me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake a journey through Europe on foot. After much thought, I

This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help

My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice distinctions myself. To me they are only fine large words meanin

在伦敦，两位富翁兄弟打赌，把一张无法兑现的百万大钞借给Henry，看他在一个月内如何收场。一个月之后，Henry不仅没有被饿死或被捕，反倒成为有钱人，还赢得一位美丽小姐的芳心。

Although I have had several opportunities to see a bull-fight, I have never seen one; but I needed a bull-fight in this book, and a trustworthy one will be found in it.

Left out of A Tramp Abroad, because it was feared that some of the particulars had been exaggerated, and that others were not true.