A Woman's Journey Round the World

A Woman's Journey Round the World, by Ida Pfeiffer
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Title: A Woman's Journey Round the World Author: Ida Pfeiffer Release Date: February 11, 2004 Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII [eBook #11039]
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A WOMAN’S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLD, from Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia, and Asia Minor.
BY IDA PFEIFFER. An unabridged translation from the German.
PREFACE.
I have been called, in many of the public journals, a “professed tourist;” but I am sorry to say that I have no title to the appellation in its usual sense. On the one hand I possess too little wit and humour to render my writings amusing; and, on the other, too little knowledge to judge rightly of what I have gone through. The only gift to which I can lay claim is that of narrating in a simple manner the different scenes in which I have played a part, and the different objects I have beheld; if I ever pronounce an opinion, I do so merely on my own personal experience. Many will perhaps believe that I undertook so long a ...