Author : G. E. Winants
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1330301668
Journal of Travels Around the World, 1877 by G. E. Winants Pdf
Excerpt from Journal of Travels Around the World, 1877 The following pages contain a simple narrative - without pretense to literary elegance - of travels around the world, which were full of interest and instruction to me, I can but hope that my plain account of them will be of equal interest to others, and have the satisfaction of furnishing it for the perusal of such friends as may desire to read it. A journey around the world is a very different undertaking to-day from what it was when Columbus first crossed the Atlantic. The vessels in which he made his adventurous voyages are said to have been less than one hundred tons' burden, but now some of our ocean-steamers are of the capacity of five thousand tons. Before the introduction of steam upon the sea, it took a sailing-ship from thirty to forty days to cross the Atlantic, but now the passage can be made in less than ten days, and the time is reduced in the same proportion in the voyage around the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
