There are no conditions of travel in which a few general hints as to how to adjust one's self
to surroundings can prove so useful as on a sea voyage and it is with the object of preparing
the traveler for his trip by telling him how to go how much it will cost how to amuse himself
and what to do on arrival at the coveted shore that this book has been written. The writer
believes that by giving just that sort of information which he himself and others of his
acquaintance have wanted to know on various trans-Atlantic voyages he cannot fail to meet
pretty closely the needs of the average voyager. The writer also hopes that the information
contained in this volume will be augmented in subsequent editions by the voluntary experience
of its readers an addition which cannot fail to greatly increase the value of the book. It may
interest the reader to know that many hundreds of pamphlets issued by various transportation
companies throughout the world were thrown into the alembic which produced this slender volume
a fact which will give the reader some idea of the difficulties which are entailed in editing a
work of this character. Within the last two or three years steamship and railway companies have
done much to annihilate space it is now possible to make a complete circuit of the earth in 38
days or less than one-half the proverbial 80 days of Jules Verne. This fantastic book is a
reprint of the original published in 1910.
