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The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain. [2] Published in 1869, it humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered steamship Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867.
ibiblio.org This site has the full text of An Inland Voyage, using the Cockbird Press edition (1991). Andrew Sanger (1991), An Inland Voyage, with a Travel Guide to the route , published by Cockbird Press (1991) ISBN 1-873054-02-5 , most up to date travel itinerary for those repeating the journey, includes annotations and illustrations to the ...
The series covered tourist destinations in Europe and parts of Asia and northern Africa. According to scholar James Buzard, the Murray style "exemplified the exhaustive rational planning that was as much an ideal of the emerging tourist industry as it was of British commercial and industrial organization generally."
The book then moves on to Cyrus' Greek troops travels through Asia Minor back home to Greece. Lucian of Samosata (c. 125 – after c. 180) True History – documents a fantastic voyage that parodies many mythical travels recounted by other authors, such as Homer; considered to be among the first works of science fiction. Pausanias (fl. 2nd century)
Jean de Mandeville is sent forth from England on his expedition by Edward II According to the book, John de Mandeville crossed the sea in 1332. [ 2 ] He traversed by way of Turkey ( Asia Minor and Cilicia ), Tartary , Persia , Armenia , the Holy Land , Syria , Arabia , Egypt , Libya , Abyssinia , Chaldea , the land of the Amazons , India, China ...
An Account of the Voyages first page, 1773. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of his Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from ...
In April 1932 Fleming replied to an advertisement in the personal columns of The Times: "Exploring and sporting expedition, under experienced guidance, leaving England June to explore rivers central Brazil, if possible ascertain fate Colonel Percy Fawcett; abundant game, big and small; exceptional fishing; room two more guns; highest references expected and given."
On 2 May 1864 the British departed and the Ionian Islands became three provinces of the Kingdom of Greece, although Britain retained use of the port on Corfu. This can be seen as the first example of voluntary decolonization by Britain. For Greece, the incorporation of the Ionian Islands was the first of several territorial increases to 1947.