A review by creolelitbelle
The Innocents Abroad: Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress by Mark Twain

adventurous informative slow-paced

2.25

My least liked book by Mark Twain thus far. The travel aspect was appealing, but the writing is richly saturated with historical and Biblical stories that relate to the group's travels by location of where they visited and the story settings. I feel like the narrative could have benefited from more anecdotes about the travels of Twain and his companions and even time on the ship or who the other travelers were. This nonfiction travel log /part history book is very much a product of its time as much as Twain was a product of the world in which he lived. The most interesting parts of the book was learning how attitudes towards different people and cultures have changed over the past more than decade. I listened to the Blackstone Audio edition narrated by Grover Gardner, and his storyteller voice kept me going. 
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