*Ø* Blogmanac September 15, 1895 | Mark Twain in Oz

The Australians do not seem to me to differ noticeably from Americans, either in dress, carriage, ways, pronuciation, inflections, or general appearance.
American humorist Mark Twain, observing in Australia, More Tramps Abroad

I am a revolutionist – by birth, breeding, principle, and everything else.
Mark Twain, to a reporter in 1906, cited in Kaplan, Justin, Mr Clemens and Mark Twain. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1966, p 368

1895 American humourist, lecturer and author, Mark Twain, arrived in Australia aboard the Warrimoo on a three-month lecture tour. (Twain is shown here in a photo taken at the American lab of Nicola Tesla.)

Twain the anti-imperialist
"Mark Twain (1835-1910) was the most prominent literary opponent of the Philippine-American War and he served as a vice president of the Anti-Imperialist League from 1901 until his death. In February of 1901, as his essay 'To the Person Sitting in Darkness' was creating a storm of controversy throughout the United States, a Massachusetts newspaper editorialized that 'Mark Twain has suddenly become the most influential anti-imperialist and the most dreaded critic of the sacrosanct person in the White House that the country contains.'" Source

Mark Twain’s War Prayer
Mark Twain on War and Imperialism

"In 1885 Mark Twain designed and patented a game intended to help people keep historical facts straight."
Mark Twain’s Memory Building Game

Mark Twain on the Platform in Australia
Mark Twain in Australia

Twain wrote about my town
I live two miles out of the little town of Woolgoolga, NSW, Australia, mentioned by Mark Twain:

In the weltering hell of the Moorooroo plain
The Yatala Wangary withers and dies,
And the Worrow Wanilla, demented with pain,
To the Woolgoolga woodlands
Despairingly flies.
Source

Twain wrote of his travels in Following the Equator, of special interest to our Australian and New Zealand readers.