Twain, Mark
Revered American writer and wit, born Samuel Clemens (1835) in Florida, Missouri; author of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Huckleberry Finn (1884), and one of the first Americans, in 1866, to offer a published account of surfing—or "surf-bathing" as Twain called it. Twain, 30, was virtually unknown when he visited the Kona Coast on the Big Island of Hawaii as a $20-dollar-an-article travel correspondent fo...
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"Surf-Bathing—Failure," from Mark Twain's Roughing ItSubscribe to view
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"Surf-bathing — Success," from Mark Twain's Roughing ItSubscribe to view
"Surf-Bathing—Failure," from Mark Twain's Roughing It
Mark Twain
Detail from cover of Roughing It, first edition
"Surf-bathing — Success," from Mark Twain's Roughing It