The Book Show

In a republished collection of Mark Twain's travel writing about Australia, Don Watson introduces us to the man and his works and explains what the most famous man in the world was doing changing trains in the middle of the night at Albury, because of the different train gauges, going to Bendigo and Ballarat and to the Melbourne Cup. The collection is called The Wayward Tourist: Mark Twain's Adventures in Australia. It republishes edited extracts about Twain's travels around Australia from his book Following the Equator.

Guests

Don Watson
Australian author of several books including the bestsellers Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM , Death Sentence and Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words . In addition to books and essays, he writes films and gives occasional talks on writing and language

Publications

Title: The Wayward Tourist - Mark Twain's Adventures in Australia
Author: Introduction by Don Watson
Publisher: Melbourne University Press

Presenter

Ramona Koval

Producer

Rhiannon Brown