Roughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature by Mark Twain. It was written in 1870–71 and published in 1872, [2][3] following his first travel book The Innocents Abroad (1869).

This is easily done, for if the reader can imagine a gnarled and venerable live oak-tree reduced to a little shrub two feet-high, with its rough bark, its foliage, its twisted boughs, all complete, he …

Roughing It, semiautobiographical novel by Mark Twain, published in 1872. This humorous travel book, based on Twain’s stagecoach journey through the American West and his adventures in …

Roughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. He wrote it during 1870–71 and published in 1872, as a prequel to his first book The …

Roughing It Published early in 1872, MT's second major work is about going west to dig for wealth in the rocks of Nevada and ultimately finding it instead as a writer and entertainer.

The critical edition of Mark Twain's early masterpiece about the American West—with a wealth of new documentation, the accurate and complete text, and all the original illustrations.

Roughing It (1872) is the second major work by American humorist Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). It recounts his experiences during the Nevada silver rush of the 1860s. …