Roughing It

Listeners to Roughing It will find themselves laughing along with the author, as the Wild West gets a little bit wilder in this charming edition of Twain s American adventures, mishaps and musings.. Higbie, of California, an honest man, a genial comrade and a steadfast friend, this book is inscribed by the author, in memory of the curious time when we two were millionaires for ten days. To Calvin H. So the witty Mark Twain dedicates his second travelogue and charming SEMI-sequel to The Innocents Abroad

Read it! Just another reviewer I loved this book. Amazing adventures of Mark Twain as a very young man in the Old West - mostly Nevada and California - plus Hawaii. Very interesting to read descriptions from 150 years ago of places I know today. And funny! That guy was hilarious.I liked this book more than I did the better-known Life on the Mississippi.. Actualuser said MT's Journal. This was the personal journal of Mark Twain for his trek across the Wild West to the West and to the Sandwich Islandsa seven year journey. The reason for only three stars is that it is written in the language of the 1860's at times difficult to follow. The stories about the characters of that day were fantastic, humorous, and individualistic.. "for I have never purchased a book and in return received such a pile of garbage. It contained no index" according to R.A.H. My book, as my fellow readers have stated were merely pages pasted together with a generic cover and front and back. I suppose I was due for this, for I have never purchased a book and in return received such a pile of garbage. It contained no index, intro, context listing, and the truly unbelievable omission -- no pages numbered! Stay clear of this bogus product. Pure garbage

There is no nicer surprise for a reader than to discover that an acknowledged classic really does deliver the goods. Roughing It is informally structured around the narrator's attempts to strike it rich. The adventure tale is a delight from start to finish and is just as engrossing today as it was 125 years ago when it first appeared. From stagecoach travel to the etiquette of prospecting, the modern reader gains considerable insight into that much-fictionalized time and place. But he withstands it all in such a relentless good humor t