Diary of a trip around the world, 1869-1870.

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Diary of a trip around the world, 1869-1870.

Diary of a trip around the world, 1869-1870.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702132907

The diary describes an 1869 train trip from New York City to California. The unidentified author and a party of friends traveled on the New Jersey Central Rail Road westward through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, northern Ohio and Indiana. At Chicago they switched to the Chicago & Pacific Rail Road and continued through Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, and California. Diary entires concern the landscape and people encountered. The diary describes siteseeing in California, in particular a visit on horseback to Yosemite Valley. The author boarded the steamship Japan in San Francisco, traveled to Japan, and continued on to China, India, the Mideast, the Mediterranean, Italy, Austria, France, England, Scotland, and Ireland. The diary ends with a voyage across the Atlantic to New York.

1 v.(127 p.)

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