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Harry Alverson Franck. A Vagabond Journey Around the World
A Vagabond Journey Around the World
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY RAMBLES
CHAPTER II. ON THE ROAD IN FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND
CHAPTER III. TRAMPING IN ITALY
CHAPTER IV. THE BORDERS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
CHAPTER V. A “BEACHCOMBER” IN MARSEILLES
CHAPTER VI. THE ARAB WORLD
CHAPTER VII. THE CITIES OF OLD
CHAPTER VIII. THE WILDS OF PALESTINE
CHAPTER IX. THE LOAFER’S PARADISE
CHAPTER X. THE LAND OF THE NILE
CHAPTER XI. STEALING A MARCH ON THE FAR EAST
CHAPTER XII. THE REALMS OF GAUTAMA
CHAPTER XIII. SAWDUST AND TINSEL IN THE ORIENT
CHAPTER XIV. THREE HOBOES IN INDIA
CHAPTER XV. THE WAYS OF THE HINDU
CHAPTER XVI. THE HEART OF INDIA
CHAPTER XVII. BEYOND THE GANGES
CHAPTER XVIII. THE LAND OF PAGODAS
CHAPTER XIX. ON FOOT ACROSS THE MALAY PENINSULA
CHAPTER XX. THE JUNGLES OF SIAM
CHAPTER XXI. WANDERING IN JAPAN
CHAPTER XXII. HOMEWARD BOUND
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Harry Alverson Franck
A Narrative of Personal Experience
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I climbed on deck at sunrise to find the ship steaming at half speed through a placid canal. Far down below us were clusters of squat cottages, the white smoke of kindling fires curling slowly upward from their chimneys. Here and there a peasant, looking quite tiny from the height of our deck, crawled along across the flat meadows. Away in the distance several stocky windmills were turning slowly yet ceaselessly in the morning breeze.
The canal opened out into the teeming harbor of Rotterdam. A custom’s officer inquired my profession, slapped me paternally on the back with a warning in German to beware the “schlechte Leute” who lay in wait for seamen ashore, and dismissed me, while the well-dressed tourist still fumed over the uninspected luggage in his cabin.
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