An acerbic account by one of America's greatest writers of his travels in Europe and the Near East, humorously describing both the places he visited and his fellow passengers on the voyage.Stanfords Travel Classics feature some of the finest historical travel writing in the English language, with authors hailing from both sides of the Atlantic. Every title has been rest in a contemporary typeface and has been printed to a high quality production specification, to create a series that every lover of fine travel literature will want to collect and keep.