John Foster Fraser

John Foster Fraser

Sir John Foster Fraser (1868-1936) was a British travel author. In 1896, he and two friends took a bicycle trip around the world, which he documented in the book Round the World on a Wheel. Being the narrative of a bicycle ride of nineteen thousand two hundered and thirty-seven miles through seventeen countries and across three continents."

Bibliography

* Youth's golden cycle (1884)
* Round the World on a Wheel (1899)
* America at work (1903)
* The real Siberia, together with an account of a dash through Manchuria (1904)
* Canada as it is (1905)
* Pictures from the Balkans (1906)
* Vagabond papers (1906)
* Red Russia (1907)
* Life's contrasts (1908)
* Quaint Subjects of the King (1909)
* The British empire and what it means (1910)
* Australia, the making of a nation (1912)
* The land of veiled women; some wandering in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco (1913)
* Panama and what it means (1913)
* The amazing Argentine; a new land of enterprise (1914)
* The conquering Jew (1915)
* Russia of to-day (1915)

External Links

[http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=John%20Foster%20Fraser%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts Works by John Foster Fraser at the Internet Archive]


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