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...Nome and Omsk. Should this plan ever be put into effect, the globe-trotter would no longer be forced to endure the hardships of any voyage save that across the Atlantic. The Peterkin family, which is fabled to have crossed Bering Strait on ice to avoid the discomforts of shipboard, could have accomplished its purpose much more easily by means of Pullman sleepers under...
...program will call for a certain amount of special preparatory work before coming to New York, where the trip will start, and for a training course during the days on shipboard. The subject of this preliminary study will be the political and economic conditions in Europe, as nearly as they can be understood from a distance. This work is intended to form a background against which the conditions, as they really are, can be more clearly seen and understood. The program calls for an extensive tour of Europe, including stops at the principal cities, where the party will meet leaders...
...need is the "S. S. British Trade", a new departure in the annals of shipping as well as of advertising. Built especially for the purpose, she will tour the world, carrying on board the representatives of about two hundred firms and samples of their commodities,--a county fair on shipboard, or a floating Heinz pier let loose from Atlantic City moorings...
...tramp steamer travelling hither and yon over the Seven Seas. This man of machines, who loves the intricacies of boilers and turbines, is at the same time a writer and a thinker of unusual merit. With the eyes of a poet, he surveys the life about him, on shipboard, in unfrequented corners of the earth, and then, in his spare time, he gives his impressions to the world through essays and short sketches that have a scholarly tone reminiscent of Lamb, yet enlivened by a virile strain inseparable from a man of action. It is a remarkable combination that gives...
...party will sail from New York on a liner chartered for the occasion. On shipboard there will be classes in the Italian language, and also a series of lectures on Italian history, art, and culture. The expedition will land at Naples, spend several days there, and then go on to Rome. After a stay of six days in Rome, which will be spent in visiting various points of historical interest, the party will go to Florence, and then to various other industrial and intellectual centers of Northern Italy. Three days will be spent in Florence, going through the various...