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A Tramp Abroad

Twain, Mark

Read by John Greenman · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording

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01 - The Knighted Knave of Bergen (9:59)
02 - Heidelberg \[Landing a Monarch at Heidelberg\] (18:28)
03 - Baker\'s Bluejay Yarn \[What Stumped the Blue Jays\] (7:53)
04 - Student Life \[The Laborious Beer King\] (10:50)
05 - At the Students\' Dueling-Ground \[Dueling by Wholesale\] (10:16)
06 - A Sport that Sometimes Kills (8:20)
07 - How Bismark Fought (11:42)
08 - The Great French (21:49)
09 - What the Beautiful Maiden Said (10:34)
10 - How Wagner Operas Bang Along (17:09)
11 - I Paint a Turner (10:35)
12 - What the Wives Saved (10:11)
13 - My Long Crawl in the Dark (13:11)
14 - Rafting Down the Neckar (8:41)
15 - Down the River \[Charming Waterside Pictures\] (13:14)
16 - An Ancient Legend of the Rhine \[The Lorelei\] (13:50)
17 - Why Germans Wear Spectacles (16:46)
18 - The Kindly Courtesy of Germans (16:43)
19 - The Deadly Jest of Dilsberg (20:47)
20 - My Precious, Priceless Tear-Jug (14:49)
21 - Insolent Shopke (17:48)
22 - The Black Forest and its Treasures (23:08)
23 - Nicodemus Dodge and the Skeleton (14:57)
24 - I Protect the Empress of Germany (13:52)
25 - Hunted by the Little Chamois (24:48)
26 - The Nest of the Cuckoo-clock (20:29)
27 - I Spare an Awful Bore (18:31)
28 - The Jodel and Its Native Wilds (21:48)
29 - Looking West for Sunrise (10:50)
30 - Harris Climbs Mountains For Me (21:15)
31 - Alp-scaling by Carriage (22:10)
32 - The Jungfrau, the Bride, and the Piano (17:15)
33 - We Climb Far-- By Buggy (15:33)
34 - The World\'s Highest Pig Farm (21:40)
35 - Swindling the Coroner (26:47)
36 - The Fiendish Fun of Alp-Cimbing (24:10)
37 - Our Imposing Column Starts Upward (23:42)
38 - I Conquer the Gorner Grat (25:54)
39 - We Travel by Glacier (15:50)
40 - Piteous Relics at Chamonix (20:22)
41 - The Dearful Disater of 1865 (11:04)
42 - Chillon has a Nice, Roomy Dungeon (19:16)
43 - My Poor Sick Friend Disappointed (19:50)
44 - I Scale Mont Blanc--by Telescope (18:45)
45 - A Catastrophe Which Cost Eleven Lives \[Perished at the Verge of Safety\] (5:18)
46 - Meeting a Hog on a Precipice (15:25)
47 - Queer European Manners (22:15)
48 - Beauty of Women--and of Old Masters (21:07)
49 - Hanged with a Golden Rope (19:52)
50 - Titian Bad and Titian Good (8:54)
51 - Appendix A: The Portier (11:27)
52 - Appendix B: Heidelberg Castle (15:49)
53 - Appendix C: The College Prison (13:39)
54 - Appendix D: The Awful German Language (48:41)
55 - Appendix E: Legend of the Castles (13:18)
56 - Appendix F: German Journals (14:44)

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