
Following on from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) & Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884-5) Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) became one of Mark Twain's most popular books. Again we meet his world famous characters: Tom Sawyer, ' Nigger Jim', & Huck Finn
- together now on a fantastical balloon journey across the Atlantic to meet lions & Bedouins in the Sahara & retrace something of Twain's own expedition to the Holy Land in his best-selling The Innocents Abroad (1869). Later, in Tom Sawyer Detective (1896), Twain returns us the banks of the Mississippi & a murder mystery involving identical twins & stolen diamonds. The author is back in his formative territory, the region his imagination could never leave behind. It provides him with another comedy of human foibles starring the irrepressible Tom Sawyer.