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Bates, Henry Walter. Illustrated Travels : A Record of Discovery, Geography and Adventure. London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1869.
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Evans, Estwick. A Pedestrious Tour of Four Thousand Miles. Concord, N.H.: Joseph C. Spear, 1819.
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Tweedie, Ethel Brilliana. America as I Saw It. New York: Macmillan, 1913.
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The Globe: "No American could ask for a more sympathetic critic of his nation than Mrs. Alec-Tweedie, for she frankly loves both the country and the people. ... A book of acute and cutting kind criticism."
The Daily Telegraph: "Mrs. Alec-Tweedie has produced a brisk, breezy, rattling record of impressions gathered at full speed. . . . Not for one moment could the least sympathetic reader find himself bored by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie's society, and to be able to say this is to say much indeed."
The Standard {in a Leader): " Mrs. Alec-Tweedie in her witty book, 'America as I Saw It,' mercilessly attacks what she regards as the myths of Transatlantic energy and hustle. There is no doubt a good deal of truth in her criticism. A gifted author.''
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Franck, Harry Alverson. A Vagabond Journey around the World. New York: The Century Co, 1910.
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This is Harry A. Franck's first book. It's the account of his epic journey around the world. He originally intended to travel without money, without weapons, and without carrying baggage or supplies. Instead, he wanted to depend both for protection and the necessities of life on personal endeavor and the native resources of each locality. He altered his original plan to decide to carry a kodak camera and enough money to cover photography supplies ($104). The chief object of the journey was to live and work among the world's workers in every clime. His plan included no fixed itinerary. The details of route he left to chance and the exigencies of circumstances.
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London, Jack. The Road. London: The Macmillan company, 1907.
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"The Road" is an autobiographical memoir presenting stories from the time that Jack London spent as a hobo in the late 19th century.
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Fletcher Lummis, Charles. A Tramp across the Continent. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1892.
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When young Charles Lummis heard about a job in the small town of Los Angeles more than a century ago, he walked all the way to it—across the plains, up Pike's Peak, down Devil's Gorge, through the Grand Canyon, over the desert. It was, by conservative estimate, one of the grandest hikes in American history. With no reason to be modest, Lummis called his "unpretentious" account of it "the wayside notes of a happy vagabonding."
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Perkins, James. A Tour Round the Globe. London: W.H. and L. Collingridge, 1891.
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Sterne, Laurence. A Sentimental Journey through France & Italy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905.
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Savory, Isabel. A Sportswoman in India. London: Hutchinson & co., J.B. Lippincott company, 1900.
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Pennell, Joseph, and Elizabeth Robins Pennell. A Canterbury Pilgrimage. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1885.
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De Windt, Harry. From Paris to New York by Land. London: G. Newnes, 1904.
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"What was the object of this stupendous voyage, or the reward to be gained by this apparently unnecessary risk of life and endurance of hardships?" Harry De Windt's aim was to find out if a railway that connected Paris and New York could be constructed - from today's point of view an almost incredible purpose and effort. Originally published in 1903.
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Thicknesse, Philip. A Year’s Journey through France, and Part of Spain. London: Printed for W. Brown, 1789.
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Twain, Mark. Innocents Abroad. Hartford: American Pub. Co., 1881.
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Being some account of the steamship Quaker City's pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy land; with descriptions of countries, nations, incidents, and adventures as they appeared to the author : with two hundred and thirty-four illustrations. The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress was published by American author Mark Twain in 1869. The travel literature chronicles Twain's pleasure cruise on board the chartered vessel Quaker City through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of religious pilgrims. It was the best selling of Twain's works during his lifetime.
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Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels. Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott, 1918.
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Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and the brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift's savage satire view mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves.
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