Map of Paris

“The reader will find it well to frame this map for future reference, so that it may aid in extending popular intelligence and dispelling the wide-spread ignorance of the day.”

In September of 1870 Twain published this map of Paris, printed backward because of Twain’s mistake in not engraving the map properly. The map served, in true Twain humor, as a parody of current newspapers’ coverage of the Franco-Prussian War and it became wildly popular. It was reprinted many times, including as a fold-out in Galaxy Magazine in November 1870.

Mark Twain’s America

By The Old Perfessor

A step by step introduction to the vast travels of America’s greatest writer. Due to the limitations of these sites, I will not include Hawaii, which he explored extensively as a young reporter. Some of the images are taken from a website I created about Mark Twain pilgrimages.

This will be a work in progress for some time, so if anyone has a better picture of any of these places, I’d be happy to mount them. Up until the 1895 world tour, I did not include every stop on his lecture tours. I am including the USA/Canadian section of that tour because it was a significant event in his life, and the placemarks paint a picture of the energy level of this 60 year old man. One thing I learned in putting this together is that if you Start with New Orleans and Atlanta, the cities of Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Hartford and Boston form a straight line.