A satire on modern travels
By: by Snodgrass, Jr
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
Publisher: Printed for the author
Published: 1874
Place of publication: Haverhill, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Subjects: Travel writing
Other titles: Sensational journey
Notes: "This poem of imaginary travel is designed to check the egotism and conceit of modern tourists, who, in these days of steam and rapid travel, pay a flying visit to foreign countries of whose language manners and customs they are perfectly ignorant, and in a few weeks return, and with the aid of guide books and a fertile imagination they manage to deliver a course of lectures ..."--Preface, p. [3], 1st count.

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Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.