If you've ever done any extended low-budget traveling yourself, you'll recognize the author as 'one of us', but 100 years earlier. He was a back-packer long before that became a 'thing'. This is the fascinating account of a young man who makes an epic journey around the world in 1904. He originally intended to travel on the bum, without money, without weapons, and without carrying baggage or supplies. Instead, he wanted to depend both for protection and the necessities of life on personal endeavor and the native resources ...
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If you've ever done any extended low-budget traveling yourself, you'll recognize the author as 'one of us', but 100 years earlier. He was a back-packer long before that became a 'thing'. This is the fascinating account of a young man who makes an epic journey around the world in 1904. He originally intended to travel on the bum, without money, without weapons, and without carrying baggage or supplies. Instead, he wanted to depend both for protection and the necessities of life on personal endeavor and the native resources of each locality. He altered his original plan to decide to carry a Kodak camera and enough money to cover photography supplies ($104). The chief object of the journey was to live and work among the world's workers in every clime. His plan included no fixed itinerary. He left the details of his route to chance and the exigencies of circumstances. And it gets him everywhere around the globe. Harry Franck might be the quintessential backpacker; maybe he was the very first to do this. Since he brought his camera, this book is loaded with 100+ photographs of the 'coleur locale'. PS: some sensitive readers might get a tad bit offended by the unsalted opinions the writer has on the various countries and peoples he visits and contacts. The book was written in a time when 'Political-Correctness' wasn't a thing, yet. So you've been warned. Notoir Books is a publisher of books on topics of esoteric interests, eccentric memoirs, overlooked history, otherworldly stories and distinctive voices. You can visit us at notoirbooks.com for more.
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Add this copy of Vagabond Journey Around the World: a Narrative of to cart. $8.57, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published by Garden City Publishing Co.
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Add this copy of A Vagabond Journey Around the World to cart. $24.00, good condition, Sold by Abstract Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Indianapolis, IN, UNITED STATES, published 1915 by Century.
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Good. Book. 8vo. (xv) 502 pages, b/w plates; green cloth, small pictures front cover. Good condition, cover wear spine ends/corner tips, bottom edge rubbed, titles dimmed spine, a few spots, front inner hinge cracked, name inside front cover, nameplate front endpaper; contents very good-; no dust jacket, in clear Brodart sleeve.
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Fair. 24 cm, 502, illus., bookplate, some endpaper discoloration, front endpaper scuffed, corners bumped. Partly reprinted from various periodicals. Travel experiences of the author on a trip shortly after finishing college; with minimal funds he visited France, Switzerland, the Mediterranean, Palestine, the Orient, India, Malaysia, Siam, Japan, and other countries.
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Add this copy of A Vagabond journey around the world; a narrative of to cart. $34.50, very good condition, Sold by Margaret Taylor Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from santa cruz, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1910 by The Garden City publishing Co..
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 502 Black boards have bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Yellow lettering on the spine is clear, fairly bright and is easy to read. Pages are clean and crisp. Some photographs included to help illustrate the text. Yellow topstain. DJ-C lean and very bright; has light wrinkling/rubbing to the head and tail of the spine. Light edgewear along the upper and lower edges. Light wrinkling next to the upper corner in the rear and also next to the head of the spine-and next to upper corner on f ront cover. 1/4""closed tear at top rear. Outside of the light wear on the outside edges, the dj has no discernable flaws-very nice condition. Brodart wrapped. Hard book to find in a dust jacket, let alone a very nice one.; exh3d201.
