The French lecturer and humorist Max O’Rell crossed the Atlantic to speak to American audiences and recorded everything that struck him on the way: the customs house and the interviewers, the hotels, the newspapers, the audience that never smiles, the ladies’ schools, Bill Nye, coats of arms bought to order, the wealth of New York, and the French Canadians of Quebec.
Sharp, good-humoured travel observation of Gilded Age America from an outsider who enjoyed it. Download the free EPUB.