Around the World on a Freighter at 76

by Lillian Loveland

It is a most unusual woman who would embark on a freighter ship for a trip around the world at the age of 75, and it is a most unusual book that Lillian Steel Loveland has written about her journey. Mrs. Loveland is an extraordinary person with a zest for living which communicates itself throughout her writing and makes this book a uniquely stimulating experience, as well as a remarkable travel book.
In her informative sketches of Italy, China, Korea, Spain, India, Egypt and many other lands, the author energetically reports on a world recovering from a devastating war and struggling uncertainly for peace. Frequently traveling off the beaten track, Mrs. Loveland had a chance to observe the people of many lands under natural rather than tourist conditions. She noted with sharp perception their living and working habits, the clothes they wore, the food they ate. These things she set down in writing, in the same informal and thoroughly absorbing manner she used to tell her friends about them.

198 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1954

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oct 1949-March 1950 trip from Vermont west to San Francisco via train. Freighter from San Francisco west to Japan, Korea. Then south west to Spain and on to NYC.