Around the world with General Grant
By: John Russell Young ; abridged, edited, and introduced by Michael Fellman.
Contributors: Fellman, Michael.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. 1822-1885 -- Travel; Young, John Russell, 1841-1899 -- Travel; Voyages around the world -- History -- 19th century
Description: "After leaving the office of the presidency in 1877, Ulysses S. Grant embarked on a journey worthy of his legendary namesake, an around the world tour that took him from Europe to the Middle East and Asia over two and one half years. Accompanying Grant was journalist John Russell Young, a wartime assciate who was working in Europe as a correspondent for the New York Herald when Grant first arrived in England.

On assignment for the Herald, Young joined the former president's entourage and faithfully recorded every detail of the grand tour - the sightseeing, official visits, travel conditions, and, notably, Grant's candid recollections of the Civil War. So far from home, Grant felt free to speak his mind about his fellow Union officers, his Confederate adversaries, and the conduct of the war, at far more length than he would in his celebrated but close-to-the-vest memoirs.

These salty reminiscences of the war may give this travelogue its greatest historical interest." "A portrait of one of America's most brilliant - and thoughtful - military men, Around the World with General Grant is a classic work of American journalism and history. It is also a travel book, filled with reflections on exotic places and on Western, particularly British, imperialism in the years before America stepped upon the world stage."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Map on endpapers.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Philadelphia to England; title: After a run to the continent, Scotland and the North Country; title: Paris; title: Cities of antiquity and the Western Mediterranean; title: Egypt and the Holy Land; title: The Eastern Mediterranean and return to Italy; title: Holland, Germany, and Scandinavia; title: Russia and Austria; title: Spain, Portugal, and a jaunt to Ireland; title: India; title: Burma; title: Singapore, the Straits of Malacca, Siam; title: Cochin China; title: Hong Kong; title: On to China; title: Tientsin and Pekin; title: Leaving China; title: To Japan; title: Tokyo and the Emperor of Japan; title: Across the Pacific to California.