Traveling Alone. A Woman's Journey Around the World
New York: From the Press of John Polhemus, Trade Supplied by The American News Company, 1890.
First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. viii, 358 pp. Original brown cloth. Moderate wear to boards; internally clean and sound. The daughter of two freethinkers, Lilian Leland was encouraged to read widely as a child, and this led to a deep curiosity and a desire to see the world. Setting out from New York in 1884 at age 25, she traveled alone for more than two years and 60,000 miles. She visited Chile, Hawaii, Japan, China, Java, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Turkey, and much of Europe.This account was compiled from her private letters, and the style is breezy and informal. A contemporary reviewer noted with approval that "Miss Leland cared nothing about dates, dimensions, or statistics; was not eager to immortalize her name by attempting to add one more to the long list of tedious guide books, but wrote in a delightfully free and off-hand fashion."
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