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Over two decades of travel, the author records letter-form accounts of voyages and stays across the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, narrating ports, landscapes, monuments, and local customs. The collection mixes practical travel notes, routes, shipboard hazards, health concerns, and accommodations with descriptive sketches of cities, antiquities, markets, and natural scenery. Observations note social interactions, trade, and varied modes of transport while reflecting on personal motivations and the logistical challenges of long journeys. Arranged as dated letters, the text offers contemporaneous impressions that alternate detailed scene-painting with concise reportage.

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Title: Twenty years around the world

Author: John Guy Vassar

Release date: March 1, 2023 [eBook #70180]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Rudd & Carleton, 1861

Credits: MFR, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TWENTY YEARS AROUND THE WORLD ***

Engd by W. G. Jackman, New York, from a Drawing by E. Saintin

TWENTY YEARS
AROUND THE WORLD.

BY

JOHN GUY VASSAR.

NEW YORK:
RUDD & CARLETON, 130 GRAND STREET.
M DCCC LXI.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, by
JOHN GUY VASSAR
In the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

R. CRAIGHEAD,
Printer, Stereotyper, and Electrotyper,
Caxton Building,
81, 83, and 85 Centre Street.

TO
MATTHEW VASSAR, ESQ.,
FOUNDER OF THE VASSAR FEMALE COLLEGE, AT POUGHKEEPSIE,
WHOSE FRIENDSHIP AND COUNSEL

HAVE BEEN AMONG THE CHIEF PLEASURES OF MY LIFE,
These Letters
ARE AFFECTIONATELY AND RESPECTFULLY
DEDICATED.