Great Travellers, Volume 4: Discovery the World

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Feb 2016 · Discovery the World Book 4 · VM eBooks

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Next to actual travel, the reading of first-class travel stories by men and women of genius is the finest aid to the broadening of views and enlargement of useful knowledge of men and the world’s ways. It is the highest form of intellectual recreation, with the advantage over fiction-reading of satisfying the wholesome desire for facts. With all our modern enthusiasm for long journeys and foreign travel, now so easy of accomplishment, we see but very little of the great world. The fact that ocean voyages are now called mere “trips” has not made us over-familiar with even our own kinsfolk in our new dependencies. Foreign peoples and lands are still strange to us. Tropic and Arctic lands are as far apart in condition as ever; Europe differs from Asia, America from Africa, as markedly as ever. Man still presents every grade of development, from the lowest savagery to the highest civilization, and our interest in the marvels of nature and art, the variety of plant and animal life, and the widely varied habits and conditions, modes of thought and action, of mankind, is in no danger of losing its zest.

These considerations have guided us in our endeavor to tell the story of the world, alike of its familiar and unfamiliar localities, as displayed in the narratives of those who have seen its every part. Special interest attaches to the stories of those travellers who first gazed upon the wonders and observed the inhabitants of previously unknown lands, and whose descriptions are therefore those of discoverers.

One indisputable advantage belongs to this work over the average record of travel: the reader is not tied down to the perusal of a one-man book. He has the privilege of calling at pleasure upon any one of these eminent travellers to recount his or her exploit, with the certainty of finding they are all in their happiest vein and tell their best stories.

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Paris, Amsterdam.
FLORENCE AND ITS ART TREASURES.
SARAH J. LIPPINCOTT.
THE LAKE REGION OF ITALY.
ROBERT A. McLEOD.
A DAY IN ROME.
BAYARD TAYLOR.
POMPEII AND ITS DESTROYER.
ALFRED E. LEE.
MOUNT ETNA IN ERUPTION.
BAYARD TAYLOR.
PLEBEIAN LIFE IN VENICE.
HORACE ST. JOHN.
ATHENS AND ITS TEMPLES.
J. L. T. PHILLIPS.
THE ISLES OF GREECE.
HENRY M. FIELD.
THE SERAGLIO ON THE GOLDEN HORN.
EDWARD DANIEL CLARKE.
ZERMATT AND ITS SCENERY.
STANLEY HOPE.
ALPINE MOUNTAIN CLIMBING.
EDWARD WHYMPER.
A TYPICAL DUTCH CITY.
EDMONDO DE AMICIS.
ANTWERP AND ITS PEOPLE.
ROSE G. KINGSLEY.
ART MUSEUMS OF DRESDEN.
ELIZABETH PEAKE.
THE STUDENTS OF HEIDELBERG.
BAYARD TAYLOR.
THE STREETS OF BERLIN.
MATTHEW WOODS.
A RAMBLE IN PRUSSIA.
STEPHEN POWERS.
THE SALT-MINES OF WIELICZKA. [A]
J. ROSS BROWNE.
THE JUMPING PROCESSION AT ECHTERNACH.
M. OGLE.
THE CAPITAL OF AUSTRIA.
JOHN RUSSELL.
THE ESZTERHÁZY PALACES.
JOHN PAGET.
FROM HAMBURG TO STOCKHOLM.
MRS. ANDREW CROSSE.
THE MIDNIGHT SUN.
LANGLEY COLERIDGE.
IN THE RUSSIAN CAPITAL
SAMUEL S. COX.
A VISIT TO FINLAND.
DAVID KER.
MOSCOW IN 1800.
EDWARD DANIEL CLARKE.
A RUSSIAN SLEIGH JOURNEY.
FREDERICK BURNABY.