Author : James Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330886304
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (863 download)
Book Synopsis A Seven Months Run, Up, and Down, and Around the World (Classic Reprint) by : James Brooks
Download or read book A Seven Months Run, Up, and Down, and Around the World (Classic Reprint) written by James Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Seven Months Run, Up, and Down, and Around the World When I left home, late in May, 1871, after an extraordinary session of Congress, it was for the sake of health, to free body and mind from work and excitement of all sorts, such as I had broken down under, in the hot, unhealthy air, and unnatural light of the House of Representatives and its Committee rooms. Then, it never entered my head "to scribble" (for that is the only proper word) the notes which are here embodied in a book, not altogether with my approbation, though of course, with my consent. A life-long habit of work compelled me to work (I could not help it), and hence, in disobedience of the orders of my physician, I took to scribbling, always in pencil, these notes or letters, which others would have kept in their trunks, but which I sent home, rude and rough, "and good enough for a newspaper," perhaps, which lives but a day, but not good enough for a book, especially for a book of travels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.