Across the zodiac
Subtitle: the story of a wrecked record
Publisher: Hyperion Press
Format: Unknown Binding
ISBN-13: 9780883551547
First sentence: Once only, in the occasional travelling of thirty years, did I lose any important article of luggage; and that loss occurred, not under the haphazard, devil-take-the-hindmost confusion of English, or the elaborate misrule of Continental journeys, but through the absolute perfection and democratic despotism of the American system.