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Europe seen with a Knapsack and Staff.

(1864)


With a cousin and friend, he set sail on the packet ship Oxford for Liverpool in 1844 for a tour of Europe. He travelled through England, Germany, and Italy,
purportedly living on six cents a day. Views Afoot; or, Europe seen with a Knapsack and Staff (1846) is a compilation of all the articles he wrote
during the two years, which had been widely read and highly entertaining to his readers. It would prove to be a long-standing success with a number of reprints
over the next thirteen years.

~

TO

Frank Taylor,

These records of the Pilgrimage,
Whose toils and enjoyments we have Shared together,
Are
Affectionately Inscribed,
BY
His Relative and Friend.

~

"Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way,
And merrily hent the stile-a;
A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a."
From Winter's Tale.

~


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