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Across Essays & Travelogues, Literary Figures, 19th Century, and Travel — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Roughing It by Mark Twain.

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • 19th Century

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • Travel

The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale First-Person Accounts

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • 19th Century • Travel

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • 19th Century • Travel

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • Travel

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • Travel

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A Tramp Abroad

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Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • 19th Century • Travel

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Annie Ricketson’s Journal The Remarkable Voyage of the Only Woman Aboard a Whaling Ship with Her Sea Captain Husband and Crew, 1871-1874

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • 19th Century • Travel

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • 19th Century • Travel

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Tough Trip Through Paradise, 1878-1879

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • 19th Century • Travel

#15

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • 19th Century • Travel

#16

The River Queen A Memoir

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • Travel

#17

Sailing Alone around the World

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • 19th Century • Travel

#18

A Walk Through Southampton. To Which Is Added, Some Account Of The Roman Station, Clausentum (1805)

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • 19th Century • Travel

#19

Adventures In Servia Or The Experiences Of A Medical Freelance Among The Bashi-Bazouks, Etc. (1884)

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • 19th Century • Travel

#20

Journey without Maps

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • Travel

#21

On Rue Tatin The Simple Pleasures of Life in a Small French Town

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • Travel

#22

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • 19th Century • Travel

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A Russian Journal

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • Travel

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Commerce of the Prairies

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • 19th Century • Travel

If Roughing It by Mark Twain is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Essays & Travelogues, Literary Figures, 19th Century and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Fanny Trollope, Wallace Stegner, Thomas Nickerson, John Rodgers Jewitt, and others.