ANONYMOUS] LEWIS, Mary G.

LETTERS FROM ABROAD. [A Journey Around the World in 1924-25, with a Cross-Canada tour by Train from Vancouver to Quebec].

No Place: No Publisher, No Date. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, bound in full soft dark blue morocco , front panel lettered in gilt, brown marbled endpapers. Unpaginated (circa 200 pp.), folding map printed in black, blue and red. Tanning to spine, small chip to leather at spine head, afew minor scuffs; a very good copy of a very scarce book. Item #313893

¶Privately published and distributed, England, circa 1925-1927. Mary Lewis was certainly of the British Upper Class, and these are her letters sent home during a trip around the world in 1924-1925; published with a map after her return back to England. Her travels took her through France to the Mediterranean, through the Suez Canal , the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea to Bombay, through India to Baroda, Ahmadabab, Jaipur, Delhi, Cawnpore, Lucknow,Allahabad, Benares & Calcutta; To Burma (Mandalay, Rangoon); Penang, Singapore, Chaina (Hong-Kong, Shanghai, Nanking, Peking, Mukde); Seoul, Fusart, Through Japan and then across the Pacific on th Canadian Pacific liner the S.S. "Empress Of Asia" to Victoria, BC and Vancouver; She stayed at the Hotel Vancouver, visited Capilano Canyon, etc; then by train through the Fraser Canyon and the Rockies to Lake Louise and Banff;the across the prairies to Toronto, Noagra Falls (where they complain about American Customs refusing to let them cross the border without paying a"terrific head-tax), then to Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City, the final letter is from the Place Viger Hotel in Montreal, dated June 5th, 1925.

Price (CAD): $75.00