AROUND THE WORLD ON A PENNY-FARTHING Thomas Stevens

A classic travel cycling book. Thomas Stevens set off from San-Francisco in 1884 to journey around the world on a penny-farthing bicycle. It took him nearly three years to complete.

This is a used travel book in good condition: clean with minor wear though showing some age; pages are clean and tanning lightly at the edges with age; a few age spots to first page and inside cover (see photos); cover is clean with minor wear; binding is excellent with no spine creases and light sun fading. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

Publisher's blurb: At 8am on 22nd April 1884, Thomas Stevens set out from San Francisco to travel around the world - on a penny-farthing bicycle. His route for this unique journey of nearly three years' duration took him to Boston, from where he sailed to Liverpool, and then through Europe to Constantinople, Egypt, India, Hong Kong, Japan and China. A journalist and an instinctive observer, Stevens recorded the different customs of the countries through which he passed with understanding, humanity and sometimes an outraged sense of natural justice. Negotiating rotten roads and facing hostility and setbacks with humour and dogged endurance, he kept the wheels of his extraordinary mount turning, and survived to write this account of his experiences. Stevens was born in 1855 at Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire and moved to America in 1871. As a newspaper correspondent he achieved fame as the first journalist to meet Sir Henry Stanley on his long trek to the coast of East Africa.

Book Details

Code: SKU1655

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 409

Published: 1991 by Arrow, UK

ISBN: 0099739208

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