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The irrepressible Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, always looking for trouble, find it again in Tom Sawyer Abroad, Twain’s once-celebrated but now little-known sequel to his classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Tom and Huck have both ranged the length of the Mississippi, but, as Huck declares, “Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?…No, he wasn’t. It only just pisoned him for more.” So the two boys head off to see the unveiling of a futuristic airship—only to be kidnapped by its mad inventor! But when the inventor goes overboard in a storm, it’s up to Tom and Huck to take control of the airship as it heads out over the seething ocean toward the unknown. Yonder they will encounter robbers, lions, Bedouins, and the perils of the Sahara in their very own Arabian adventure.
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"This story is part science fiction but it is nice to know the story goes on. Although parts of it are inconceivable, who cares, Tom, Huck and Jim have another cool adventure"
— Rob (4 out of 5 stars)
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“Younger readers in particular will enjoy listening to actor/director/narrator Grover Gardner’s delightful performance.”
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" Not quite as good as the original books. In fact, I had to check and recheck to make sure that the same author actually wrote this book. It's that much of a departure. "
— John, 2/20/2014 -
" wow, when Mark Twain decides to end a book he doesn't care for, he just ends it. Of course that would be an issue if we had any building emotion or plot. It was just a couple of swells wandering in a Verne air ship and then all of a sudden Tom's Aunt says to come home, and he does. THe end. Gotta love books written for no other reason than the money "
— David, 2/17/2014 -
" i just needed something to read and found it on my shelf. Fun, entertaining. "
— Aubrey, 2/14/2014 -
" I'd recently added blatherskite to my vocabulary, so it was fun to see it in this novel. I liked the rest of Twain's words, too. "
— Marissa, 2/7/2014 -
" A bit of Twain moralizing mixed with jabs at travel writing, and you've got Tom Sawyer Abroad. It stops suddenly. "
— Julia, 1/24/2014 -
" Tom, Huck & Jim fly in a 'balloon-ship' to Africa. Not a must-read but fans of Twain should enjoy it. "
— Jerry, 1/24/2014 -
" Not the best Mark Twain, but still fun. Huck is constantly trying to argue against Tom's logic, and a few times it ends up hilarious when he flusters him. "
— Ian, 1/5/2014 -
" Please guys, if you want to understand boys naughtiness from another prespective just read the series... It's amazing... "
— Andy, 12/12/2013 -
" Short review: I liked this much more than The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Looking forward to reading Tom Sawyer Detective. "
— Robert, 5/9/2013 -
" To sum it all into one phrase, "Where did that come from?" "
— Shawn, 3/22/2013 -
" I dunno if I am to old, I can't appreciate fine literature or what. I havn't relaly enjoyed any twain books I have read since Tom Sawyer, but I was young? It seems like things happen, next bam. Decent illustrations I suppose? "
— Paul, 11/12/2009 -
" A funny story about a hot air balloon ride that takes the boys on a world adventure. "
— Heather, 9/17/2009 -
" I don't know why it reminded me a little bit of " the alchemist" "
— Abhradeep, 7/28/2008 -
" Great book. Read it to my son. We had so much fun reading this book together. Now we are reading Tom Sawyer Detective. "
— Bill, 6/29/2006 -
" I visited Mark Twain's home in Hartford, CT where he wrote most of his famous novels, so it made me want to read/re-read his works. This was one that I had never read. It was okay, but never really grabbed my attention. But I'll still read his other works. "
— Kerry, 6/19/2004 -
" Cerita petualangan yang seru...dulu pas sd pernah baca buku komiknya, ternyata setelah besar baca novelnya tetap menarik kok "
— Fannylin, 7/9/2003 -
" A hilarious book with Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Fin. "
— Schreibs, 1/29/2001
About Mark Twain
Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens (1835–1910), was born in Florida, Missouri, and grew up in Hannibal on the west bank of the Mississippi River. He attended school briefly and then at age thirteen became a full-time apprentice to a local printer. When his older brother Orion established the Hannibal Journal, Samuel became a compositor for that paper and then, for a time, an itinerant printer. With a commission to write comic travel letters, he traveled down the Mississippi. Smitten with the riverboat life, he signed on as an apprentice to a steamboat pilot. After 1859, he became a licensed pilot, but two years later the Civil War put an end to the steam-boat traffic.
In 1861, he and his brother traveled to the Nevada Territory where Samuel became a writer for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, and there, on February 3, 1863, he signed a humorous account with the pseudonym Mark Twain. The name was a river man’s term for water “two fathoms deep” and thus just barely safe for navigation.
In 1870 Twain married and moved with his wife to Hartford, Connecticut. He became a highly successful lecturer in the United States and England, and he continued to write.
About Grover Gardner
Grover Gardner (a.k.a. Tom Parker) is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.