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Grover Gardner does such a good job reading this book I am now convinced Mark Twain sounded exactly like him.

Quite a people have made comments about Twain's racist and prejudicial statements in this book, including his assumption that people from just about any culture than our own are lazy, greedy and stupid. This is true, but he was a product if his time, and was fairly enlightened for that time. He let his peers in for quite a lambasting as well. He was a curmudgeon. Everyone was fair game.

His writing was poetic at times. He saw the majesty of the world where it really existed.He saw through the overblown hyping of world "treasures" pitched at tourists.

This book covered the Holy Land more than it did Europe and I am grateful for his honest, slightly cynical description of a world that both no longer exists, and also has become a parody of itself.