Complete and unabridged. Twain and a companion set out to walk across Europe and contrive to do nearly all of it by raft, train, carriage and mule. The Alps, the Black Forest, a German student duel fought with sabers and no fear whatever, and the celebrated essay on the awful German language. He wrote it short of money and homesick, and the standing joke is that the walking tour is a fiction the narrator refuses to give up. Its 245 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.