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FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR

I wrote my last travel-book in hell; but I let on, the best I could, that it was an excursion through heaven. Some day I will read it, & if its lying cheerfulness fools me, then I shall believe it fooled the reader. How I did loath that journey around the world!--except the sea-part & India. - Letter to William Dean Howells, April 2, 1899

Woodcut illustration based on photograph used as the frontispiece of the first edition of FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR

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