Mark Twain, a different virus and Athens

In 1867 Mark Twain decided to venture to the Old World. He purchased a ticket that would take him aboard the USS Quaker City for a “Great Pleasure Excursion” around Europe and the Middle East. During his trip he sent a series of travel letters  to a San Francisco paper. These were subsequently published as The Innocents Abroad, or The […]

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