Written within months of Bayard Taylor’s death in Berlin, where he was serving as American minister, this biography follows the Pennsylvania farm boy who walked across Europe, wrote Views A-Foot, reported on the California gold rush and travelled through Egypt, the Holy Land, India, China and Japan, later translating Goethe’s Faust. Conwell is warmly admiring throughout.
A contemporary life of one of nineteenth-century America’s most celebrated travellers, by the author of Acres of Diamonds. Download the free EPUB.