Excerpt from 13, 000 Miles of Sight Seeing in Thirty Days : A Great Race for a Big Prize Grand Tour of Europe; Many Lands at One View; Fine Art, Information, Story; Copiously Illustrated With Fine Engravings With this book one may make the grand tour at small cost, and see real pictures, in pen and pencil, of actual persons and places, while one remains quietly at home. Thirteen thousand miles is a greater distance than around the world on the meridian of latitude of London, Paris or Milan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.