Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World: (Annotated Edition) indir kitap bedava

When Twain sets off on his voyage from Victoria, he first travels by ship, a mode of transportation with which he is quite familiar. Twain describes this in his non-fiction account. ''Ours was a reasonably comfortable ship, with the customary sea-going fare--plenty of good food furnished by the Deity and cooked by the devil.'' Comfort is essential, especially because of the length of time spent on the ship; it takes seven days for the ship to arrive at its first destination, Honolulu, though a cholera outbreak prevents them from going ashore. As Twain sits ''about the decks in the shade of the awnings and look(s) at the distant shore,'' he reminisces about his time years before on the island and its history. At day break, it's time to head to Fiji.When he gets to Fiji, Twain observes the beauty of the world in front of him. ''. . .a broad belt of clean white coral sand around the island; back of it a graceful fringe of leaning palms, with native huts nestling cosily among the shrubbery at their bases; back of these a stretch of level land clothed in tropic vegetation; back of that, rugged and picturesque mountains.'' While on land, he realizes that the islands have more than beauty. They now have the bicycle, thus becoming a more modernized region.