Round The World In Any Number Of Days (1914)

""Round The World In Any Number Of Days"" is a travelogue written by British author Maurice Baring and published in 1914. The book chronicles Baring's journey around the world, which he completed in a record time of just 56 days. Baring recounts his experiences in various cities and countries, including New York, San Francisco, Japan, India, Egypt, and France, among others. He provides vivid descriptions of the people he meets, the landscapes he sees, and the cultures he encounters. Baring's writing style is engaging and humorous, making the book an entertaining read. Additionally, the book provides a unique perspective on the world at the dawn of the 20th century, before the outbreak of World War I. Overall, ""Round The World In Any Number Of Days"" is a fascinating account of one man's whirlwind journey around the globe.""This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Born in London in 1874, Maurice Baring was a man of letters, a scion of a family long prominent in the financial ventures of the British Empire. The son of the 1st Baron Revelstoke (a director of the Bank of England and a senior partner at Baring Bros.) he was educated at Eton and at Cambridge, and joined the diplomatic service in 1898. In 1904 he became a journalist and reported the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria; later he was a correspondent in Russia and Constantinople. He is credited with having discovered Chekov's work in Moscow and helping to introduce it to the West. Baring is remembered as a versatile, prolific and highly successful writer, who produced articles, plays, biographies, criticism, poetry, translations, stories and novels. He is regarded as a representative of the social culture that flourished in England before World War I, his work highly regarded to this day for the acute intimate portraits of the time.