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>