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About The Book : With this volume ends the record of two and a half years of travel, which was commenced in the Journey to Central Africa and continued in the "Lands of the Saracen." In bringing his work to a close, the author cannot avoid expressing his acknowledgment of the public interest in those portions of his narrative already published an interest which has justified him in the preparation of this volume, and encouraged him to hope that he will again be received at the same fireside a gossip and companion, not as a bore. Although the entire travels herewith presented embrace India, China, Japan, the Loo-Choo and Benin Islands, and the long homeward voyage around the Cape of good Hope. About The Author : Bayard Taylor (1825 –1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat. As a poet, he was very popular, with a crowd of more than 4,000 attending a poetry reading once, which was a record that stood for 85 years. His travelogues were popular in both the United States and Great Britain. He served in diplomatic posts in Russia and Prussia. The results of these journeys were published as A Journey to Central Africa; or, Life and Landscapes from Egypt to the Negro Kingdoms of the White Nile (1854); The Lands of the Saracen; or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain (1854); and A Visit to India, China and Japan in the Year 1853 (1855).