Excerpt from Girdling the Globe: From the Land of the Midnight Sun to the Golden Gate, a Record of a Tour Around the WorldThe we 0 used by the author includes his wife, who was his constant companion on the long journey around the globe, and who has been a constant inspiration to him in all his work.The record of northern Europe includes in part two journeys, and hitherto unpublished notes on both are drawn upon. In these tours we traveled over fifty thousand miles, visited four of the great divisions of the globe, pass ing through twenty-four different countries, kingdoms and empires. We spent nearly one hundred days at sea, sailing on more than thirty different Ships.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.