Following the Equator

A cloud hangs over Mark Twain as he leaves Hartford for the Pacific—and the first miles bring a gritty purser, a crowded steamer, and a world still waiting beyond the horizon.

In the 1890s, burdened by debt after a failed investment, the sixty-year-old Twain sets out on a lecture tour across the British Empire. From the Warrimo’s deck he crosses to Honolulu, Fiji, Australia, and beyond, meeting unfamiliar customs, grand claims, and human absurdities with a traveler’s curiosity and a satirist’s sharp eye. The farther he goes, the more his journey becomes a reckoning with the people and powers shaping the world around him. What will Twain find when the road leads him to the next port?

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