How the World Travels
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Alice A. Methley. How the World Travels
How the World Travels
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. TRAVEL IN THE OLDEN DAYS
CHAPTER II. COACHING DAYS
CHAPTER III. STRANGE VEHICLES OF EUROPE
CHAPTER IV. JOURNEYS THROUGH INDIA
CHAPTER V. THE CONVEYANCES OF CHINA AND JAPAN
CHAPTER VI. JOURNEYS THROUGH AFRICA
CHAPTER VII. JOURNEYS IN THE NEW WORLD
CHAPTER VIII. TRAVELLING IN THE WILDS
CHAPTER IX. THROUGH ICE AND SNOW
CHAPTER X. STRANGE TRAVEL IN STRANGE LANDS
CHAPTER XI. TRAVEL OF YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY
CHAPTER XII. THE TRAVEL OF TO-MORROW
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Alice A. Methley
Published by Good Press, 2021
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RIDING PILLION FASHION.
During the seventeenth century many alterations and improvements took place in coach-building both in England and France, and in 1620 we find Louis XIV. driving in a carriage with glass sides. In the reign of this monarch, too, a curious light two-wheeled conveyance was introduced. It was called a flignette and very much resembled a modern dog-cart.
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