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Harry A. Franck frontispiece PAGE A bakers cart of Holland on the morning round ... 14 Boundary line between France and Germany .... 21 My entrance into Paris 22 The Bridge of Sighs .39 My gondolier on the Grand Canal 41 Country family returning from market 49 Italian peasants returning from the vineyards to the village 53 The lonely, Bedouin-infected road over theL ebanon .. 76 On the road between Haifa and Nazareth I meta road repair gang 98 The shopkeeper and traveling salesman with whom 1spent two nights and a day on the lonely road to Jerusalem 117 The Palestine beast of burden 119 A woman of A lexandria, Egypt, carrying two bushels of oranges 130 An abandoned mosque outside the walls of Cairo .. .132 An Arab cafe in Old Cairo 134 Sais or carriage runners of Cairo, clearing the streets for their master 138 An Arab gardener 140 Egypt A young Arab climbing down the pyramid ..142 On the top of the largest pyramid 143 A trip to the pyramids 144 A long the way shadoofs were ceaselessly dipping up the water 147 The Egyptian fellah dwells in a hut of reeds and mud .
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After spending some sixteen years in schools and colleges, I decided, one spring, to take a year off and make a trip around the world. I had no money for such a journey; but that didn’t matter for I meant to “work my way” from place to place. I spoke French and German, and had some knowledge of Spanish and Italian. I believed that if I had to work among the people of foreign countries I would learn more of them and of their languages than in any other way. So I was not sorry that I had to start my journey with only my camera and one hundred and four dollars for films.For more read the book.
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