Reminiscences of Foreign Travel
by Crawford, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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London, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. xx, 308 p. 20 cm. Red cloth hardcover with gold print. Slight spine lean, small marks to covers, corners a little bumped. Pages clean and neat.
Crawford visited Canada as surveyor for the railways as well as the Montreal Waterworks after the great fire. He describes his railway experiences, as well as journeys into the backwoods of Quebec and the Thousand Islands. The book also chronicles his visits to Egypt, Germany, Austria, Turkey, and Algiers.
Crawford visited Canada as surveyor for the railways as well as the Montreal Waterworks after the great fire. He describes his railway experiences, as well as journeys into the backwoods of Quebec and the Thousand Islands. The book also chronicles his visits to Egypt, Germany, Austria, Turkey, and Algiers.
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- Bookseller
- Attic Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100457
- Title
- Reminiscences of Foreign Travel
- Author
- Crawford, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1888
- Keywords
- Canada, General, Travelogue, reminiscences, autobiography, Hudson River, steamboat, sailing, Albany, Saratoga, Lake Champlain, St. Lawrence, Vermont, Lake of a Thousand Islands, Franco-German War, shooting, hunting, Mustafa, Canadian Grand Trunk Railway
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Quebec;
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