Two fictional American boys, Frank and Fred, set out with their tutor Doctor Bronson by rail across the continent to California, sail the Pacific with a whaling yarn on the way, and land at Yokohama. From there they see Tokyo, temples, theatres, customs such as the ritual of hara-kiri, and go on to China, in the first of Knox’s popular Boy Travellers series.
A Victorian travelogue-in-fiction, full of period detail on Japan and China; its attitudes are those of 1879. Download the free EPUB.