Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Twice Around the World
One of those early dreams was a cruise around the world, the world that then seemed so far away. Your fancy saw it as a skyline of minarets and pagodas and pinnacles, as a panorama of the yellow and the brown and the black in quaint and resplendent costumes, as a menagerie of elephants and camels and tigers. Your ear caught the call of the muezzin, the drone of the shorn priest beneath the tinkling temple bells, the clang of the cymbals in the Orient theatre, the jingle of the anklets in the dance hall, the piping of the cobra charmer, the guttural growl of the camel, the hoarse trumpeting of the elephant, and the long, piercing note of the jungle-bird. To your nostrils came the smoke of incense, the perfume of sandalwood, the Spice-laden breezes of emerald isles in summer seas. Oh, it was a wonderful world, and you would sail around it and see it all - you, when Your Ship came in!
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