Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Endeavorer's Working Journey Around the World
The average tourist has told us much of the palaces of royalty and the salons of art centers. What I wanted to know was what the lower caste of India ate for breakfast, the sort of car pets the peasantry of France had on the front room ?oor, how hard a German laborer had to work to provide for his large family, whether the sentiment of the Bedouin was a fable, and the possible profits of the farmer in the Holy Land. Books had not told me these things. Lecturers had given information about the Leaning Tower of Pisa, but had not told what would be necessary for an American to do in order to shift for himself in the Philippines. I went to the old countries far more anxious to see the wageearners of Italy and Switzerland and China than to behold a string of princes or marvel at the architecture of European capitals.
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