A Boston newspaperman fulfils a long-held dream with a seven-month tour of Europe and sends home sketches for the Commercial Bulletin. Collected here, they range across Britain and the Continent with the journalist’s eye for facts and figures: palaces such as Versailles, galleries, cathedrals, hotels and the small surprises of foreign life.
A hefty and good-humoured guide to what a nineteenth-century American wanted to see in the Old World. Download the free EPUB.