An American journalist sets out on a peaceful crusade to the East, meaning both to amuse and to instruct. He describes steamer life on the Atlantic, Vienna and the Danube, the Magyars, Sevastopol and the Crimea, the Black Sea, and journeys through the Ottoman lands and Syria, including a hard climb over Mount Hermon, with constant demands for backsheesh along the way.
A long, cheerful travelogue of the Gilded Age East, in the spirit of Twain’s The Innocents Abroad. Download the free EPUB.