Innocence and War

In 1867, a California newspaper commissioned Mark Twain to travel to the Holy Lands. The trip provided the humorist with an abundance of material for his satiric classic "The Innocents Abroad." A century and a half later, author Ian Strathcarron scrupulously retraces Twain's footsteps, recounting the history of his predecessor's journeys and his own impressions of the region and its people.