1 Nov 2011

Part 1 - The Trouble Begins At Eight

From The Trouble Begins at Eight, 12:01 pm on 1 November 2011

Mark Twain braved sinking ships, angry dogs and rabid reviewers to bring his lucrative lecture tour to New Zealand. But neither the funny man's reasons for coming nor his time here were much of a laughing matter. Why did the supposedly wealthy writer of Huckleberry Finn have to travel so far from home to make a buck?

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