{"product_id":"9780817313500","title":"Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism: The Tide of a Great Popular Movement","description":"Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize for best manuscript in American Literature\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With the publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Innocents Abroad\u003c\/i\u003e (1869), Mark Twain embarked on a long and successful career as the 19th century's best-selling travel writer. Jeffrey Melton treats Twain's travel narratives in depth, and in the context of his contemporary travel writers and a burgeoning tourism culture. As Melton shows, Twain's five major travel narratives--\u003ci\u003eThe Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, A Tramp Abroad, and Following the Equator\u003c\/i\u003e--demonstrate Twain's mastery and reinvention of the genre.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124163985648,"sku":"9780817313500","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780817313500_p0.jpg?v=1763745792","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780817313500","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}