Mark Twain in Hawaii: Roughing It in the Sandwich Islands

from Goodwillbooks

I enjoy Mark Twain (as so many do), and his writing has a "modern" (perhaps read "ironic/sarcastic") tone to it that is enjoyable, and it's present in this book. However, this particular edition is flawed with so many typographical errors that I feel that I am not always reading his work - certai...

from classyhomemaker

This one was kind of hard to rate. Despite this diary confirming my firm stance on disliking Mark Twain, there were some funny bits, as well as a good amount of interesting history. I'm grudgingly settling on three because I feel I must take "the times" into consideration, to some degree; yet I m...

from ladycato

This book was shorter than I expected at 84 pages, with more padding after that consisting of many black and white pictures of Hawaii and important people mentioned in Twain's letters. Twain's writing still makes for an easy, witty read. His more racist observations made me wince yet they remain ...

from mstrust

A collection of essays, originally published for the Sacramento Union newspaper, of the four months Twain spent in the Hawaiian Islands. He writes of the natives and their customs and religions, their foods, the hula hula dance, body surfing, their treatment of animals, and their canoes. He witne...