Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

This is Twain’s account of his 1895 lecture tour of British territories in Oceania and South Asia. Twain embarked upon the lecture tour as a way to get out of debt. The seriousness of his reasons for travel are reflected in the tone of the book. Lacking the humor of Twain’s earlier works, Following the Equator examines the relationships between British settlers and native populations in the territories he visited. In the process, Twain teases out issues of racial superiority and the responsibilities of colonizers to colonized people.

A version of this text has been digitized and is available through the Internet Archive.

Lehigh University Catalog Record: https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/164328