An annotated edition of Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad, with over 1200 footnotes, eight appendixes, a lexicon, and a comprehensive index. Mark Twain's best-selling book during his lifetime, The Innocents Abroad documents Twain's journey on a former Civil War transport ship, for five months, visiting Europe and the Middle East. During that journey Twain uses his sharp observations to skewer the local populations, his guides, the authors of guidebooks, but no one less than his fellow passengers. The Innocents Abroad takes a look at people, places and events in the post US Civil War period, including some of the most famous works of art and literature in the Western world, but also the East, where he tours the Holy Land, finding it very different than his Sunday school and guidebooks described it. This new edition, a part of the Quint Essentials Library, has been designed to make the book accessible to new generations of readers.