by
Betty Oliger Fox
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was a young man of thirty when he boarded the sail-steamer Ajax on March 7, 1866, to venture on an ocean voyage to the Hawaiian Islands as a roving reporter for The Sacramento Union. He had not yet written Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, or Life on the Mississippi. He was poor...