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Excerpt from Our Travels: A Book Brimful of Beautiful Engravings, and the Best Travel Information, Gleaned From Everywhere; A Picture Tour; The British Isles: The Continent of Europe, the Holy Land and Egypt, Mexico: The United States and Canada My Dear friends: - I have something special I want to say to you about the preparation for any trip. Most people have when they write a preface, but even to change the form to "foreword" does not deceive the public into reading. This is the way I am trying to hoodwink you into reading what I want you to know about our book and how it was called into existence. Our effort and thought has been threefold: To make the book valuable to those who contemplate travelling. To tell such what they ought to know, because, if you do not listen to what others have to say who have had to pay for the experience, you will require to make one trip to each place to find out what you should have known before leaving home. We deal with only the points you will visit, and thus you are not confused with a mass of detail about places you will not see, as is the case when you read up from many books. Second. - To make the book equally valuable to those who have taken any or all of the trips here outlined in picture. As the excitement of overcrowded days and weeks gradually calms down, the visions will become clearer and brighter, and these pictures, properly arranged and in order, will fix clearly for you those places in which you passed days and nights, and will be a never failing assistance to "That inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude." Oliver Wendell Holmes assures us, as one who knows, that "it is a blessed thing to be able, in the twilight of years, to illuminate the soul with such visions of travel." Third. - We wish this book to be an inspiration to those who cannot themselves take the trips. The next best thing to travelling is reading about places and studying good pictures. We want you to find pleasure in what we ourselves have so much enjoyed. We are often asked, What is the truly ideal way to travel? We answer, unhesitatingly, in a private car with your dearest friends, a good chef and unlimited time. You stop where you please and arc independent of hotels. The great, overwhelming difference between this mode of travel and any other was demonstrated to me on just such a trip, and I longed to have everyone taste of the same pleasure. True, only a millionaire can travel thus; but why not come as near it as possible? If a party were large enough, friends could still have a private car, and, better still, a private train. Such thoughts as these put into action brought about the revolution, and is illustrated by many snapshots in this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
