The Interior's Pilgrimage to the Orient - 111 Days March 9th to June 27th 1901 Including Italy, Egypt, The Nile, Palestine, Turkey, Asia Minor, Greece, Switzerland, Paris and London

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Original staple-bound printed wraps 16 x 24cm. 24pp including several b/w photos. Near fine. Not recorded on Worldcat or Jisc. The Interior was a Presbyterian journal founded in Chicago in 1870. It commissioned Henry Gaze to arrange this lengthy tour for a select and wealthy clientele, "among the very best of our citizens, educated, well read, experienced persons of refinement, principally clergymen, physicians, lawyers, educators and successful business men and their families". Gaze had a track record of organising high end educational tours. This brochure presents the details, "one of the most magnificent possible to be organized" (p23). It covers the practicalities of travelling by the Atlantic Steamer, bookings, etc. It recommends the use of Baedeker's or Murray's if guide books are to be taken at all: "They are more expensive but repay the extra cost" (p5). The tour made use of local guides. JL Leeper, a US academic, accompanied the party as their representative and lecturer, and a reproduction of his letter of acceptance to Everett Sisson, Business Manager of the Interior is included. The benefits of a Membership Ticket are described. The cost came to $875, or $900 with a better room on the outward Atlantic Voyage aboard the "palatial" Kaiser Wilhem II. The rest details the daily itinerary with b/w photos of picturesque local scenes. N° de ref. del artículo 4344

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