Project Gutenberg 2004-06-01 Public domain in the USA. 170 Holman, James 1786 1857 A Voyage Round the World, Volume I Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832 E-text prepared by the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team from images provided by the Million Book Project "A Voyage Round the World, Volume I" by James Holman is a travel narrative written in the early 19th century. This engaging account chronicles the author's extensive travels across various continents, including Africa, Asia, and South America, during a period when exploration was both adventurous and enlightening. The book delves into Holman's unique challenges and experiences as a blind traveler, focusing on his adventures and how he cultivated his passion for exploration despite his visual impairment. The opening of the volume establishes Holman's deep-seated desire to travel and explore the world's diverse cultures, landscapes, and people. He shares his harrowing journey of coming to terms with his blindness and how this adversity fueled his quest to circumnavigate the globe. As he embarks on a voyage aboard the H.M.S. Eden, he embarks on an exciting adventure that will take him to places like Madeira and Sierra Leone. The narrative vividly describes his observations, interactions with local inhabitants, and his reflections on the impact of geographical and cultural differences, setting the stage for more explorations to come throughout the text. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Voyages around the world G Text Browsing: History - General Browsing: Travel & Geography 786865 780460 2024-09-06T03:36:32.347686 2023-10-06T05:47:59.131407 text/html text/html 779723 2020-12-15T00:46:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 323792 2020-12-15T00:46:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 401140 2024-09-06T03:36:41.512648 application/epub+zip 411147 2024-09-06T03:36:34.172687 application/epub+zip 351031 2024-09-06T03:36:33.156752 application/epub+zip 649268 2024-09-06T03:36:47.273631 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 631766 2024-09-06T03:36:40.802709 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 505572 2022-09-06T21:14:18.728048 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 744815 744708 2024-09-06T03:36:31.196698 2023-10-06T05:47:57.932442 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 745915 2020-12-15T00:46:30 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 278689 2020-12-15T00:46:30 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 746247 2020-12-15T00:46:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 278625 2020-12-15T00:46:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19962 2024-09-06T03:36:47.416652 application/rdf+xml 12075 2024-09-06T03:36:33.525678 image/jpeg 2836 2024-09-06T03:36:33.338717 image/jpeg 386471 2024-09-06T03:36:32.420728 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia