1895/6: The sixty year old Mark Twain set off on a worldwide lecture tour to pay off his debts from a publishing company bankruptcy, notes from which became his last travel book, Following the Equator.
Although he was only in India for just over two of the twelve months, his exploits and observations there take upmover 40 per cent of the book- and by common consent are the best and liveliest part of it.
In Indian Equator, author Ian Strathcarron retraces the route that Twain took as he crisscrossed the continent.
