Around the World with Eyes Wide Open: The Wonders of the World Pictured by Pen and Pencil

by Henry Allen Tupper

An absorbing account of H. Allen Tupper, Jr.'s world travels in the late 1800s, which took him "from Baltimore, over the American continent, to San Francisco, thence to the Hawaiian Islands, Japan, China, Malay Archipelago, Ceylon, India, Assam, Arabia, Africa, Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Europe, and back again to the Monumental City." The origin of his travel plans is addressed in his prefatory remarks titled "How It Happened," wherein he "If I have enabled others to share with me the pleasures and profits of my visits to many lands and among many peoples, and if I have evoked or strengthened a desire for travel in the minds of the readers of these pages, my pen has not written in vain…"

464 pages, Hardcover

First published August 22, 2015

About the author

1828-1902, clergyman