Vagabond Journey Around the World: A Narrative of Personal Experience Illustrated With More Than One Hundred Photographs (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Vagabond Journey Around the World: A Narrative of Personal Experience Illustrated With More Than One Hundred Photographs<br><br>With all due respect to bank accounts I Observed I believe a man with a bit of energy and good health could start without money and make a journey around the globe.<br><br>Laughter assailed the suggestion; yet as time rolled on I found myself often musing over that hastily conceived notion. Travel for pleasure has ever been considered a special privilege of the wealthy. That a man without ample funds should turn tourist seems to his fellow-beings an action little less reprehensible than an attempt to finance a corporation on worthless paper. He who would see the world and has not been provided the means thereto by a considerate ancestor should sit close at home until his life work is done his fortune made. Then let him travel; when his eyes have grown too dim to catch the beauty of a distant landscape when struggle and experience have rendered him blasé and unimpressionable.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.