Rabu, 07 Juni 2017

Into the Fire: Mark Twain Braves Mount Kilauea

In Hawaiian mythology, Mount Kilauea is the home of Pele, the goddess of fire, lightning and wind. When Mark Twain visited the volcano in June 1866, he called it a “vision of hell and its angels.” Twain, then 31, had been hired by the Sacramento Union newspaper to write a series of travel letters from …

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