FROM JOB TO JOB
AROUND THE WORLD
The Author
FROM JOB TO JOB
AROUND the WORLD
BY
ALFRED C.B. FLETCHER
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
BY THE AUTHOR
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
1917
Copyright, 1916,
By Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.
DEDICATED TO
RALPH J. RICHARDSON
A GOOD COMPANION AND AN INTELLIGENT TRAVELLER
FOREWORD
The pages that follow are an account of a three-year trip I made around the world, starting from San Francisco with only a five-dollar gold piece and earning my way. My wanderings took me to Hawaii, Japan, Korea, China, the Philippines, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Europe, England, Norway, Spitzbergen, Sweden, and finally across the Atlantic to America. I think the book covers a new field in travel narrative in that it shows that it is possible to work one's way around the world and do so with a considerable degree of comfort. In most instances I held good positions, met the representative people of each country and travelled in moderate style. I, of course, had numerous hardships and adventures, which I relate.
I wish to extend my thanks to Mr. Ralph J. Richardson, my travelling companion on part of the trip, for the photographs which illustrate the edition and to Mr. Stanley Richardson for many valuable suggestions in connection with the manuscript of the volume. I also wish to express my gratitude to The Wide World Magazine for the courtesy of permitting me to republish the narrative from its pages.
A.C.B.F.
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