Tom Sawyer Abroad

Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and Jim go to look over an inventor's experimental airship and end up accidentally stowed away on it when the professor takes off. He is not a stable man, and when he goes overboard in a storm the three of them are left in sole possession of a balloon they barely understand, drifting east across the Atlantic.

What follows is the Sahara, and then Egypt: lions, sandstorms, a caravan of robbers, the Pyramids and the Sphinx, and one errand back to Missouri for a corn-cob pipe. Tom insists on lecturing the other two on the geography and history of everything they pass, and Huck and Jim argue him to a standstill about most of it.

Mark Twain's 1894 sequel to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is narrated again in Huck's voice, but trades the Mississippi and the social critique for a shorter comic travel tale built on bickering and tall-tale exaggeration.