Mark Twain is really a hero of novelists and travel writers, and it's been a while since I've read any of his writing. A friend lent me this neat little extract from The Innocents Abroad, published in the Penguin Great Journeys series as Can-cans, Cats and Cities of Ash.Travelling by ship, Twain and …
RTW in books
RTW in books: Oscar Wao in the Dominican Republic
Some of you know I've been griping about not traveling so much now that I've moved back to Perth from Europe. I'm trying to get over that by traveling Round The World (RTW) in books, so you'll be seeing more in this series of posts soon. To kick it off, I've just read a novel set in a place I've …