Today's American Minute — Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad, his visit to the Middle East & his views on life - American Minute with Bill Federer
his visit to the Middle East & his views on life - American Minute with Bill Federer Innocents Abroad Mark Twain
In Innocents Abroad, chapter 53, Twain described the condition of Jerusalem under Ottoman Muslim rule:
"Palestine is desolate and unlovely ... Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of Moslem rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound ...
Jerusalem is mournful, and dreary, and lifeless. I would not desire to live here ...