How to Travel (1881)

"Hints, advice, and suggestins to travelers by land and sea all over the globe." First published in 1881. Great resource for research into that time period. Chapter titles: GENERAL ADVICE APPLICABLE TO ALL KINDS OF TRAVEL, RAILWAY TRAVEL IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADAS, AMERICAN STEAMBOAT TRAVEL, SEA AND OCEAN TRAVEL, SEA-SICKNESS AND HOW TO AVOID IT, SPECIAL ADVICE TO LADIES, DAILY LIFE AT SEA, GOING ON SHORE.--HOTELS, THE SYSTEM OF FEES, ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL MONEY, LANGUAGES AND COURIERS, RAILWAY TRAVELING ON THE CONTINENT, STEAMBOAT TRAVEL IN EUROPE, SEA-GOING STEAMERS IN EUROPEAN WATERS, SEA AND OCEAN STEAMERS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD, BY STAGE-COACH, DILIGENCE, AND POST, TRAVELING WITH CAMELS AND ELEPHANTS, TRAVELING WITH REINDEER AND DOGS, TRAVELING WITH MAN-POWER. PALANKEENS, JINRIKISHAS, AND SEDAN-CHAIRS, PEDESTRIAN TRAVELING.--MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, TRAVELING WITHOUT MONEY, SKELETON TOURS FOR AMERICA AND EUROPE, GENERAL DIRECTIONS, WITH ROUTES, DISTANCES, ETC., FOR A JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLD, LEGAL RIGHTS OF TRAVELERS, WILDERNESS AND FRONTIER TRAVEL.

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