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


1st Edition Following the Equator
First edition of FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR


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