The innocents abroad, or, The new pilgrims' progress: being some account of the steamship Quaker City's pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land

"I have found out," Mark Twain once wrote, "that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them." It was a lesson he had actually learned when, as a young journalist, he set sail for Europe and the Holy Land with "the first organized pleasure party ever assembled for a transatlantic voyage."