A Tramp Abroad

Twain's 1880 account of a walking tour through the Black Forest and the Alps on which very little walking gets done: rafting the Neckar, storming the Riffelberg, and studying the manners of Germany and Switzerland along the way. The appendices include The Awful German Language.

Appendix
Chapter I [The Knighted Knave of Bergen]
Chapter II Heidelberg
Chapter III Baker’s Bluejay Yarn
Chapter IV Student Life
Chapter V At the Students’ Dueling-Ground
Chapter VI [A Sport that Sometimes Kills]
Chapter VII [How Bismark Fought]
Chapter VIII The Great French Duel
Chapter IX [What the Beautiful Maiden Said]
Chapter X [How Wagner Operas Bang Along]
Chapter XI [I Paint a “Turner”]
Chapter XII [What the Wives Saved]
Chapter XIII [My Long Crawl in the Dark]
Chapter XIV [Rafting Down the Neckar]
Chapter XV [Charming Waterside Pictures]
Chapter XVI An Ancient Legend of the Rhine [The Lorelei]
Chapter XVII [Why Germans Wear Spectacles]
Chapter XVIII [The Kindly Courtesy of Germans]
Chapter XIX [The Deadly Jest of Dilsberg]
Chapter XX [My Precious, Priceless Tear-Jug]
Chapter XXI [Insolent Shopkeepers and Gabbling Americans]
Chapter XXII [The Black Forest and Its Treasures]
Chapter XXIII [Nicodemus Dodge and the Skeleton]
Chapter XXIV [I Protect the Empress of Germany]
Chapter XXV [Hunted by the Little Chamois]
Chapter XXVI [The Nest of the Cuckoo-clock]
Chapter XXVII [I Spare an Awful Bore]
Chapter XXVIII [The Jodel and Its Native Wilds]
Chapter XXIX [Looking West for Sunrise]
Chapter XXX [Harris Climbs Mountains for Me]
Chapter XXXI [Alp-scaling by Carriage]
Chapter XXXII [The Jungfrau, the Bride, and the Piano]
Chapter XXXIII [We Climb Far—by Buggy]
Chapter XXXIV [The World’s Highest Pig Farm]
Chapter XXXV [Swindling the Coroner]
Chapter XXXVI [The Fiendish Fun of Alp-climbing]
Chapter XXXVII [Our Imposing Column Starts Upward]
Chapter XXXVIII [I Conquer the Gorner Grat]
Chapter XXXIX [We Travel by Glacier]
Chapter XL [Piteous Relics at Chamonix]
Chapter XLI [The Fearful Disaster of 1865]
Chapter XLII [Chillon has a Nice, Roomy Dungeon]
Chapter XLIII [My Poor Sick Friend Disappointed]
Chapter XLV A Catastrophe Which Cost Eleven Lives
Chapter XLVI [Meeting a Hog on a Precipice]
Chapter XLVII [Queer European Manners]
Chapter XLVIII [Beauty of Women—and of Old Masters]
Chapter XLIX [Hanged with a Golden Rope]
Chapter L [Titian Bad and Titian Good]
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F