Michel, Ernest. Le Tour du Monde en 240 Jours. Nice: Patronage de Saint-Pierre, 1882.
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Stevens, Thomas. Around the World on a Bicycle. London: Sampson Low, 1887.
Richly entertaining account, first published in 1887, of the first man to ride a bicycle around the world. Stevens rode his high-wheeler from San Francisco to Boston, then sailed to London for the ride across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
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Pennell, Joseph, and Elizabeth Robins Pennell. A Canterbury Pilgrimage. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1885.
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Connell, James. Some Humorous Experiences of a Globe Trotter. Battle Creek, Mich.: Ellis Pub. Co., 1915.
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Fletcher Lummis, Charles. A Tramp across the Continent. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1892.
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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