Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Seven Months Run, Up, and Down, and Around the World
China, unchanged and unchangeable from the days of Marco Polo, will probably remain thus, until Americans or Englishmen tempt the Mandarins, by fat contracts, to build railroads and telegraphs, and thus to defy the fung-shuey.
The American tourists, who have long been run ning over Europe and parts of Africa, will find in these notes, if not a guide-book, the outlines for one, and they will see, that they can now run over Japan, China, and India, as well as Egypt and parts of Italy, in less than_a year.
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