b. 1870

An illustrated travelogue of Paris as seen by Burton Holmes, a man who traveled the world between 1898 and the 1950s, and returned to America where he reported on his journeys through a series of lectures.

Provides a detailed account of the 1874 kidnapping and ransom of a boy named Charley Ross, who was taken from his family's front yard in Philadelphia while the city was preparing for the nation's centennial celebration, describing the wide-spread media attention on the case, and discussing the efforts of the Philadelphia and New York police departments, elicit American citizens, and others to recover the child.

Dr. John Symington faces swollen rivers and an attack by a rogue elephant in order to provide medical care for a plantation worker.