712 pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt titles, rules & decorations, elephant pictured in color panel mounted on front board. Includes 193 illustrations: photographic frontispiece of author, illustrations (some full-page) by Dan Beard, A.B. Frost, B.W. Clinedinst, Frederick Dielman, Peter Newell, F.M. Seinor, T.J. Fogarty, C.H. Warren, A.G. Reinhart, F. Berkeley Smith, and C. Allan Gilbert throughout text. A travelogue written by Twain beginning in 1895, when we began a tour of the British Empire to present lectures as a means of paying off the sizable debt associated with a failed investment in a typesetting machine. The narrative includes indictments of racism, imperialism, and missionary zealotry. Several (rather farcical) fictional pieces are interwoven throughout.
