1925 Round the World on a Bicycle Wheel Illustrated Travel Exploration Voyage

Sir John Foster Fraser was a Scottish travel author. In July 1896, he and two friends, Samuel Edward Lunn and Francis Herbert Lowe, took a bicycle trip around the world riding Rover safety bicycles. They covered 19,237 miles in two years and two months, travelling through 17 countries and across three continents. He documented the trip in the book, “Round the World on a Wheel.”

According to the preface, “This is a book of travel. But, unlike other books of travel, it is not clever or wise or scientific…For two years we bicycled in strange lands, and came home a great disappointment to our friends.”

This fascinating tale features 100 illustrations from photographs depicting the various places traveled. Some of the illustrations included are:
•The Village of Homeslinden
•In Hungary
•A Transylvanian Peasant
•In a Romanian Village
•On the Top of the Caucasus Mountains
•A family of Kurds
•Through a Persian Village
•The author’s interview with the Buddhist Archbishop of Burma

Arguably, its greatest interest is how effectively it conveys the very final hours of life before internal combustion ruled the world, when the chief rival of the bicycle was not the car but the horse.

Item number: #1925

Price: $150

FRASER, John Foster

Round the world on a wheel : being the narrative of a bicycle ride of nineteen thousand two hundred and thirty-seven miles through seventeen countries and across three continents by John Foster Fraser, S. Edward Lunn and F.H. Lowe. Written by John Foster Fraser with one hundred illustrations. Seventh Edition.

London : Methuen & Co. LTD. 1925.

Details:
•Collation complete with all pages: [xii], 532
•Language: English
•Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
•Size: ~7.5in X 5.25in (19.5cm x 13.5cm)

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