BEHIND THE RANGES: PARENTHESES OF TRAVEL. By F.G. Aflalo.

1911 1st edition. 8vo (165 x 227mm). Pp284 + 4pp advertisements. B/w photograph plates. Green cloth, spine titled in black.

Recollections of travel over five continents. Chapter 8 "The Fisherman's Mercator" includes fishing in North America and elsewhere". There is a discrepancy between the contents of this volume and the promise of its title, which may seem to lay me open to the charge of inveigling the reader under false pretences, so I hasten to admit that such commonplace travel as has fallen to my lot during the past twenty years is obviously foreign to what Rudyard Kipling had in mind when he wrote what for me is the most inspiring couplet in all his verse. It is in the spirit, rather than in the letter, that I have obeyed that ringing summons, and my tourist trails over five continents must seem hackneyed ground indeed to those who take their travel seriously". (from the author's preface). Chapters include:- Travel as an education; The reform of the tourist; A grumbler in the train; The voyage; Cakes and ale; The high places; The voice of the mosquito; The fisherman's mercator; Native servants in many lands; The morning bathe; Rivers running to their goal; Sunshine and shadow of travel.