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John Foster Fraser

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John Foster Fraser


Born
in Edinburgh, Scotland
June 13, 1868

Died
July 07, 1936

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Sir John Foster Fraser was a Scottish travel author. In July 1896, he and two friends, Samuel Edward Lunn and Francis Herbert Lowe, took a bicycle trip around the world riding Rover safety bicycles. They covered 19,237 miles in two years and two months, travelling through 17 countries and across three continents. He documented the trip in the book Round the World on a Wheel.

Between books he was a journalist. In 1901 while working for The Yorkshire Post he wrote, among other things, a 16-page description of Queen Victoria's funeral. In the UK in 1916 he lectured on What I Saw in Russia.
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Average rating: 3.65 · 66 ratings · 9 reviews · 95 distinct works
Round the World on a Wheel:...

3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1899 — 31 editions
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The Conquering Jew

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The Real Siberia: Together ...

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Pictures from the Balkans

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1906 — 39 editions
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Russia of To-Day

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The Land of Veiled Women; s...

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Balkanlar'da Kaos;Sultan II...

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Panama and What It Means

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Australia: The Making of a ...

did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1910 — 43 editions
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Canada as It Is

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“What amounted to civil war began. Greek 'bands' adopted the methods of the Bulgarian 'bands'. Greek-speaking villages which had adopted the Bulgarian Church were obliged to renounce their religion and become Greeks proper, or have their houses burnt, or worse. The villagers, who would like to be left in peace, yielded, and instead of Bulgarians became Greeks. When the Greek 'band' withdrew, down came the Bulgarian 'band' to reconvert the village and make the inhabitants Bulgarian again. Thereupon the Greek 'band' cut a few throats and fired a few houses just to remind the peasants they must be Greeks or be killed... The bishops and priests of the Greek Church in particular not only countenanced but urged crime as a means of compelling Bulgarian Macedonians to proclaim themselves Greeks.”
John Foster Fraser, Pictures from the Balkans

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