From Vermont to Damascus

Chapter 2: PREFACE.

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About This Book

A first-person travel narrative recounts a winter voyage from New England through Italy, Egypt, the Holy Land, Greece, and Constantinople, returning via central and western Europe and the British Isles. Presented as letters and episodic sketches, it blends vivid descriptions of landscapes, urban scenes, and local customs with shipboard anecdotes and portraits of people encountered, accompanied by illustrations. Practical material includes packing instructions, currency guidance, route notes, and tips for prospective travelers. The tone is observant and diaristic, progressing chronologically through outward and return stages and emphasizing everyday details useful to readers planning similar journeys.

PREFACE.

The urgent desires of the friends of the author of this volume that his Oriental letters should be compiled and put in book form prompted him to issue a work entitled “From Vermont to Damascus,” taking the reader through the Oriental land, giving a vivid picture of the country, scenes, and people as he saw them from day to day, which was the richest experience of his life. Much has been added to these letters with illustrations,—directions for preparations for such a journey, value of the currency of different countries, etc.,—making the book a valuable one for persons intending to travel in a foreign land.