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Mark Twain's Travel Literature.('Mark Twain's Travel Literature: The Odyssey of a Mind')(Brief article)(Book review)

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Mark Twain's Travel Literature

Harold H. Hellwig

McFarland & Company

Box 611, Jefferson NC 28640

978078643651, $35.00, www.mcfarlandpub.com

A major theme that famous and notorious author Mark Twain used in his books was Travel. "Mark Twain's Travel Literature: The Odyssey of a Mind" is a literary critique and examination of Twain's travel literature and the common themes scattered about through them such as the vanishing frontier of America, cultural assimilation, nostalgia, and America's cultural identity. Scholarly written and researched, "Mark Twain's ...

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