The complete online text of Following the Equator by Mark Twain.

An author and platform entertainer who became tremendously popular in his own day, Samuel Clemens participated in the major literary movements of the century and knew virtually every one of his distinguished contemporaries. Biographers have emphasized th...

Mark Twain's work captures the child that lives in the American psyche and also presents the confusions of the American adult. As a mature writer, Twain could recreate the small-town boyhood he had known by the Mississippi River in those halcyon years be...

In the early spring of 1835 John Marshall Clemens and his wife, Jane, loaded up their possessions, their five children, and their single slave in Three Forks, Tennessee, to move to Missouri. It was another in a long series of migrations which the family...

Following the Equator: A Journey around the World by Mark Twain First published 1897. Most recent edition published by Dover Books, pb, pp720, 5.99 [pounds sterling] In 1894, Mark Twain embarked on an around-the-world lecture tour, accompanied by his wife and one...

The force of gravity governs the motion of planets, asteroids, and other bodies in the solar system. Predicting their orbits requires solving equations representing the gravitational attraction between interacting masses. Now, a mathematician has discovered a new set of approximate solutions of...