Zig-Zagging Round the World: A Record of Three Years Wandering, in the British Empire, and Other Lands 1919-1922 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Zig-Zagging Round the World: A Record of Three Years Wandering, in the British Empire, and Other Lands 1919-1922

The pictorial record cannot be fully reproduced, but a selection has been made mostly to illustrate the special chapters on visits to outstanding places.

The strongest argument for making any record of these prolonged wanderings throughout the scattered British Empire and many other lands is that they gave quite unusual opportunities for comparisons. Many have seen and written about some of the places included, but few men and fewer women have seen, and seen at such leisure, all the countries which were Visited in the three years of what has been called Zig-zagging Round the World. Over miles were covered, and we voyaged in forty-six different steamers of every variety of size, accommodation, and method of propulsion. We travelled also on railways of all gauges and rates of progression, with luxurious equipment and extreme simplicity; with beds in which you could sleep and others well planned to keep you awake. Motor cars of even greater variety were utilised, and as for animal traction, about the only beast of burden omitted was the llama of South America. The itinerary is appended, and a rough route sketch is made on the book cover.

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