Traveling With Bears: In Search of Mark Twain

About the Book

Mark Twain is high on the list of America’s great travel writers. His amazing life took him to more than 35 countries and two-thirds of the states and provinces of North America. Jack Dold has highlighted these travels with a series of journals describing unique tours conducted for the University of California, Berkeley, where the majority of Mark Twain’s writings are housed at the Bancroft Library. Those tours were all accompanied by Bob Hirst, the general editor of the Mark Twain Papers Project, whose stated goal is the publication of every word the author penned. Jack’s journal descriptions are enhanced by Mark Twain’s own observations.

About the Author

For more than thirty years, Jack has written unique tours for the University of California Alumni. To date he has personally led 72 of them. The “Golden Bears” have traveled with Jack to 49 states and a dozen countries following historic trails, presidential lives, Civil War campaigns, and Colonial American development. Among the more unusual tours in that long list are seven adventures following the life and writings of Sam Clemens, aka Mark Twain. This book connects the journals of those trips, adding the comments of Mark Twain describing many of the locations that were visited. For Jack, this is a work of great admiration for the finest of America’s authors.