Thank you for this link. This summary of the tour is new to me and
gives me some new insights as I work through this book.
On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 12:49 -0400, Stephen Railton wrote:
> And there's always the way we display the North American 1895 tour in
> Mark Twain in His Times -- it includes reviews and photos as well as
> map. And you don't have to sign up for anything either!
> "http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/onstage/world.html"
> Steve Railton (Prof of English, Univ of Virginia)
>
> On 8/27/2014 12:25 PM, Sharon K. Goetz wrote:
> > Perhaps also of interest: "Mark Twain on the Platform," an exhibit that
> > lists and maps lecture locations for four decades, including 1895-96.
> > Unlike the Google map, it doesn't require the viewer to sign into a Google
> > account. (For my part I cannot view Scott Holmes's map because Google Apps
> > for Education, which underlies my employer's email service, authenticates
> > users differently somehow.)
> >
> > http://www.marktwainproject.org/simile/platform/
> >
> > Best,
> > Sharon
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Mark Twain set off on his Following the Equator tour with a number of
> >> lectures across the North American continent, both US and Canadian
> >> stops. He doesn't mention them in the book but they did allow him to
> >> refresh his oratory skills and perhaps not hate lecturing so much. He
> >> showed great resiliency and discipline seeing as how he was suffering a
> >> nasty carbuncle that didn't heal up until he found an Australian doctor.
> >> At least this is what I found in Autobiography of Mark Twain V1.
> >>
> >> Anyway, I have mapped his North American lecture locations in Google
> >> Maps https://goo.gl/maps/PchIY for anyone interested. I got the
> >> location and dates from David Fears' Mark Twain Day By Day. I purchased
> >> the PDFs for the two years, 1895 and 1896. I have not included much
> >> detail in the site descriptions but there are a lot of stories to be
> >> told here. These are only the locations from Paris, France to Victoria,
> >> Canada. I will continue on with this project as time allows.
> >>
> > <http://twitter.com/mtpo>
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