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Around the World on a Bicycle

From San Francisco to Teheran
Thomas Stevens
Shakespeare says, in All's Well that Ends Well, that "a good traveller is something at the latter end of a dinner;" and I never was more struck with the truth of this than when I heard Mr. Thomas Stevens, after the dinner given in his honor by the Massachusetts Bicycle Club, make a brief, off-hand report of his adventures. He seemed like Jules Verne, telling his own wonderful performances, or like a contemporary Sinbad the Sailor. We found that modern mechanical invention, instead of disenchanting the universe, had really afforded the means of exploring its marvels the more surely. Instead of going round the world with a rifle, for the purpose of killing something, - or with a bundle of tracts, in order to convert somebody, - this bold youth simply went round the globe to see the people who were on it; and since he always had something to show them as interesting as anything that they could show him, he made his way among all nations.

PREFACE.
CHAPTER I. OVER THE SIERRAS NEVADAS.
CHAPTER II. OVER THE DESERTS OF NEVADA.
CHAPTER III. THROUGH MORMON-LAND AND OVER THE ROCKIES.
CHAPTER IV. FROM THE GREAT PLAINS TO THE ATLANTIC.
CHAPTER V. FROM AMERICA TO THE GERMAN FRONTIER.
CHAPTER VI. GERMANY, AUSTRIA, AND HUNGARY.
CHAPTER VII. THROUGH SLAVONIA AND SERVIA.
CHAPTER VIII. BULGARIA, ROUMELIA, AND INTO TURKEY.
CHAPTER IX. THROUGH EUROPEAN TURKEY.
CHAPTER X. THE START THROUGH ASIA.
CHAPTER XI. ON THROUGH ASIA.
CHAPTER XII. THROUGH THE ANGORA GOAT COUNTRY.
CHAPTER XIII. BEY BAZAAR, ANGORA, AND EASTWARD.
CHAPTER XIV. ACROSS THE KIZIL IRMAK RIVER TO YUZGAT.
CHAPTER XV. FROM THE KOORDISH CAMP TO YUZGAT.
CHAPTER XVI. THROUGH THE SIVAS VILAYET INTO ARMENIA.
CHAPTER XVII. THROUGH ERZINGAN AND ERZEROUM.
CHAPTER XVIII. MOUNT ARARAT AND KOORDISTAN.
CHAPTER XIX. PERSIA AND THE TABREEZ CARAVAN TRAIL.
CHAPTER XX. TABREEZ TO TEHERAN.
CHAPTER XXI. TEHERAN.



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