1872 Around the World: Sketches of Travel Through Many Lands and Over Many Seas

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

In the publisher's original blue cloth binding.

This volume is a first edition.

Written by E. D. G. Prime, chronicles Prime’s year‑long global tour, beginning in New York, crossing North America, then voyaging across the Atlantic and Pacific. His route touched Japan, India, Egypt, and other regions, before returning to New York. This whistle-stop tour was taken by a variety of steam-trains and steam-ships, which accounted to a total of seventy-five days of his trip.

With numerous engraved illustrations and vignettes of his travels, some of which are full-page, including a frontispiece engraving of the Taj, at Agra.

E. D. G. Prime (born Edward Dorr Griffin Prime, 1814-1891) was a prominent American journalist, writer, and travel writer of the 19th century, best known for his detailed accounts of travel and missionary work.