Narratives
· of · Noted — — — — — Travellers
Germany seen without spectacles; or, Random Sketches of Various Subjects, Penned from Different Standpoints in the Empire
By Henry Ruggles, late United States Consul at the Island of Malta, and at Barcelona, Spain. $1.50.
“Mr. Ruggles writes briskly: he chats and gossips, slashing right and left with stout American prejudices, and has made withal a most entertaining book.”—New-York Tribune.
TRAVELS AND OBSERVATIONS IN THE ORIENT, with a Hasty Flight in the Countries of Europe
By Walter Harriman (ex-Governor of New Hampshire). $1.50.
“The author, in his graphic description of these sacred localities, refers with great aptness to scenes and personages which history has made famous. It is a chatty narrative of travel.”—Concord Monitor.
FORE AND AFT
A Story of Actual Sea-Life. By Robert B. Dixon, M.D. $1.25.
Travels in Mexico, with vivid descriptions of manners and customs, form a large part of this striking narrative of a fourteen-months’ voyage.
VOYAGE OF THE PAPER CANOE
“Mr. Bishop did a very bold thing, and has described it with a happy mixture of spirit, keen observation, and bonhomie.”—London Graphic.
FOUR MONTHS IN A SNEAK-BOX
A Boat Voyage of Twenty-six Hundred Miles down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and along the Gulf of Mexico. By Nathaniel H. Bishop. With numerous maps and illustrations. $1.50.
“His glowing pen-pictures of ’shanty-boat’ life on the great rivers are true to life. His descriptions of persons and places are graphic.”—Zion’s Herald.
A THOUSAND MILES’ WALK ACROSS SOUTH AMERICA, Over the Pampas and the Andes
“Mr. Bishop made this journey when a boy of sixteen, has never forgotten it, and tells it in such a way that the reader will always remember it, and wish there had been more.”
CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES
Being the Adventures of a Naturalist Bird-hunting in the West-India Islands. By Fred A. Ober. New edition. With maps and illustrations. $1.50.
“During two years he visited mountains, forests, and people, that few, if any, tourists had ever reached before. He carried his camera with him, and photographed from nature the scenes by which the book is illustrated.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
ENGLAND FROM A BACK WINDOW; With Views of Scotland and Ireland
“The peculiar humor of this writer is well known. The British Isles have never before been looked at in just the same way,—at least, not by any one who has notified us of the fact. Mr. Bailey’s travels possess, accordingly, a value of their own for the reader, no matter how many previous records of journeys in the mother country he may have read.”—Rochester Express.
MEXICO—PICTURESQUE, POLITICAL, PROGRESSIVE
“This is a very charming volume. The writers went through the country with their eyes wide open, and they have the faculty of interesting others in what was of interest to them.”
A WINTER IN CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO
“A bright, attractive narrative by a wide-awake Boston girl.”
A SUMMER IN THE AZORES, with a Glimpse of Madeira
“Miss Baker gives us a breezy, entertaining description of these picturesque islands. She is an observing traveller, and makes a graphic picture of the quaint people and customs.”—Chicago Advance.
LIFE AT PUGET SOUND
“Your chapters on Puget Sound have charmed me. Full of life, deeply interesting, and with just that class of facts, and suggestions of truth, that cannot fail to help the Indian and the Chinese.”—Wendell Phillips.
EUROPEAN BREEZES
“A very bright, fresh and amusing account, which tells us about a host of things we never heard of before, and is worth two ordinary books of European travel.”—Woman’s Journal.
BEATEN PATHS; or, A Woman’s Vacation in Europe
A lively and chatty book of travel, with pen-pictures humorous and graphic, that are decidedly out of the “beaten paths” of description.
AN AMERICAN GIRL ABROAD
“A sparkling account of a European trip by a wide-awake, intelligent, and irrepressible American girl. Pictured with a freshness and vivacity that is delightful.”—Utica Observer.
Curtis Guild’s Travels
Britons and Muscovites; or, Traits of Two Empires
OVER THE OCEAN; or, Sights and Scenes in Foreign Lands
“The utmost that any European tourist can hope to do is to tell the old story in a somewhat fresh way, and Mr. Guild has succeeded in every part of his book in doing this.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.
ABROAD AGAIN; or, Fresh Forays in Foreign Fields
“He has given us a life-picture. Europe is done in a style that must serve as an invaluable guide to those who go ‘over the ocean,’ as well as an interesting companion.”—Halifax Citizen.