Francis, Harriet E. By Land and By Sea : Incidents of Travel with Chats about History and Legends. Troy, N. Y.: Nims and Knight, 1891. First Edition. [12032]
Green and gray publisher's cloth, decorated in bright gilt and black, desert scene of a camel on front, binding tight and very good with a couple of thin smudges to the spine, 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches. Top page edge gilt, 1901 owner's signature on the ffep in black ink; "Compliments of Charles S. Francis" label at bottom of front paste-down. B/w portrait of the author with printed signature and tissue guard as frontispiece. x, 198 clean pp. with 26 additional b/w plates from photographs. Very good. Hardcover.
Flake 3420e for the Mormon content. "A two-hour stopover in Salt Lake City; attends a meeting in the Tabernacle and describes the meeting, p. [139]-40."
"The materials for this volume were gathered by Mrs. John M. Francis of Troy, New York, during her residence abroad, while her husband was United States Minister at the Courts of Greece, Portugal and Austria-Hungary, and in a tour taken with him around the world...She desired primarily to enlarge the scope of the youthful mind by leading it to look away from itself and its environments to study of this spacious world of ours...[it consists] of a simple sketch of the chief points which attracted her in some of the countries she visited, so expressed as to fix the attention of the young, and, by first diverting them, to end by instructing and leading them to develop an interest in the history, topography and peoples of all parts of the world." - Preface.
Travel in England and Europe, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, India, China, and Japan.
Includes shorter sections on a Mormon church service in Utah, of California, Japan, China, and several other locales.
The small presentation plate was that of her son, Charles Spencer Francis (1853-1911).
Harriet Elizabeth Tucker Francis (1828-1889), daughter of Pomeroy Tucker of Palmyra, New York. She married John M. Francis, editor and proprietor of the Troy Daily Times and a leading advocate of first Whig, then Republican causes. He was appointed by President Grant as United States Minister to Greece, and Mrs. Francis accompanied him in his stations in Greece and Europe, and on their subsequent tour of the world in 1875-76. She wrote two books about her travels, with this one seeking to be inspirational to young persons.
