A Tramp Trip: How to See Europe on Fifty Cents a DayThe first-class tourist may see the beauties of a country's landscapes and scenery from the window of a palace-car, but his vision goes no further--does not penetrate below the surface. To know a country one must fraternize with its people, must live with them, sympathize with them, win their confidence. High life in Europe has been paid sufficient attention by travellers and writers. I was desirous of seeing something of low life; I donned the blouse and hobnailed shoes of a workman, and spent a year in a "Tramp Trip" from Gibraltar to the Bosporus. Some of my experiences have been related in letters to the New York World, the Philadelphia Press, the St. Louis Republican, and other American newspapers, and in my official report to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., on the condition of the laboring classes in Europe. While the following pages contain some of those newspaper letters, the greater portion is now in print for the first time. -- Preface. |
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... MOSCOW AND ST . PETERSBURG ..... 220 CHAPTER XXIV . WHY YOU STRIKING FEATURES OF A STRONG GOVERNMENT . CANNOT LOSE YOURSELF IN BERLIN . - CHEAP LIVING IN THE GERMAN CAPITAL . -THE TOMB OF FREDERICK . -IN THE REICHSTAG . -BISMARCK AND ...
... MOSCOW AND ST . PETERSBURG ..... 220 CHAPTER XXIV . WHY YOU STRIKING FEATURES OF A STRONG GOVERNMENT . CANNOT LOSE YOURSELF IN BERLIN . - CHEAP LIVING IN THE GERMAN CAPITAL . -THE TOMB OF FREDERICK . -IN THE REICHSTAG . -BISMARCK AND ...
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... Moscow , and was about to leave without further remark , when my brother , who , as it happened , had only returned that morning from a trip to Aus- tralia , came into the office . I introduced him and mentioned the fact of his recent ...
... Moscow , and was about to leave without further remark , when my brother , who , as it happened , had only returned that morning from a trip to Aus- tralia , came into the office . I introduced him and mentioned the fact of his recent ...
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... Moscow . Said he , " The Russian workman is like the bear in one respect - he is a hibernating animal . Most workmen ... Moscow is worth fifty rubles ( twenty - five dollars ) . Better land costs in the neighborhood of two hundred ...
... Moscow . Said he , " The Russian workman is like the bear in one respect - he is a hibernating animal . Most workmen ... Moscow is worth fifty rubles ( twenty - five dollars ) . Better land costs in the neighborhood of two hundred ...
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... MOSCOW AND ST . PETERSBURG . I ARRIVED in Kiev one Sunday night in a freezing rain . It was bitter cold . Wearied with long nights and days of jour- neyings , I never before felt so dispirited . I had managed to get a little troubled ...
... MOSCOW AND ST . PETERSBURG . I ARRIVED in Kiev one Sunday night in a freezing rain . It was bitter cold . Wearied with long nights and days of jour- neyings , I never before felt so dispirited . I had managed to get a little troubled ...
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... Moscow is valued at even greater figures , on account of the brilliant stones in its frame . The Moscow Virgin is used to heal the sick and bring back to life the dying . The picture with its dazzling frame is placed on a car with great ...
... Moscow is valued at even greater figures , on account of the brilliant stones in its frame . The Moscow Virgin is used to heal the sick and bring back to life the dying . The picture with its dazzling frame is placed on a car with great ...
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Page 158 - Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 260 - This monument is the result of an appeal in The Christian World newspaper to the boys and girls of England for funds to place a suitable memorial upon the grave of Daniel De Foe.