“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts"
Travelling on the first cruise ship ever, a young Mark Twain recounts his experiences through Europe and (what is now called) The Middle East, skewering all that he sees before him. Fun to read for the very non-politically correct observations of the natives (most of which still hold true today) and of the fellow passengers, the book veers off into Twain retelling Biblical history in the later half, as the group tromps around the Holy Land.
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