Mark Twain 
Tom Sawyer, Abroad 

In Mark Twain’s short adventure tale “Tom Sawyer Abroad”, (1894) Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and their friend Jim travel to Africa in a hot air balloon. While there the trio encounter lions and bandits, while also visiting great wonders of the world like the Pyramids and the Sphinx. A sequel to the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the novel is a parody of the adventure stories of Jules Verne.

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Mark Twain (1835-1910) was the pen name and alter ego of Samuel Clemens, an American humorist, satirist, social critic, lecturer and novelist. He is considered one of the fathers of American literature and is remembered most fondly for his classic novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.