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The Travel Diaries of Mr Wallace

it's 1938 – businessman and keen amateur photographer Edward A. Wallace realizes a lifetime dream. He embarks on a world cruise with his wife and daughter

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introduction – manuscript found in a box

CHAPTER 1. The Preparation

CHAPTER 2. The First Day at Sea

CHAPTER 3. Sydney

CHAPTER 4. Hobart

CHAPTER 5. Melbourne

CHAPTER 6. Adelaide

CHAPTER 7. The Bight, or should I say, “Bite”

CHAPTER 8. Perth

CHAPTER 9. The Indian Ocean

CHAPTER 10. Colombo

CHAPTER 11. The Fancy Dress Ball

CHAPTER 12. Aden

CHAPTER 13. The Ship

CHAPTER 14. Cairo

CHAPTER 15. Naples

CHAPTER 16. France

CHAPTER 17. Genoa

CHAPTER 18. Rome, or Roma as it is known in Italy

CHAPTER 19. Florence

CHAPTER 20. Venice

CHAPTER 21. Milan

CHAPTER 22. Switzerland

CHAPTER 23. Lucerne, or Luzern as it is called in Switzerland

CHAPTER 23 (continued). Interlaken

CHAPTER 24. Heidelberg

CHAPTER 25. Cologne

CHAPTER 26. Brussels (Bruscelles)

CHAPTER 27. Paris

CHAPTER 27 (continued). Paris

CHAPTER 28. London

CHAPTER 29. London

CHAPTER 30. The Trip in the Car

CHAPTER 30 (continued). Plymouth to Land’s End

CHAPTER 30 (continued). Land’s End to Gloucester

CHAPTER 30 (continued). Wales

CHAPTER 31. A Trip to Ireland

CHAPTER 32. The Potteries

CHAPTER 33. We Enter Scotland

CHAPTER 34. Glasgow and the Exhibition

CHAPTER 35. The Scottish Lakes

CHAPTER 36. Oban to Inverness

CHAPTER 37. Aberdeen

CHAPTER 38. The Mountains, Lochs and Forests of the county

CHAPTER 39. St Andrews

CHAPTER 40. A Wet Country Tour

CHAPTER 41. The Missing Chapters – Edinburgh to Keighley

CHAPTER 42. The Missing Chapters – Manchester to Oxford

CHAPTERS 43 – 44. Flight to Amsterdam

CHAPTER 45. Amsterdam

CHAPTER 46. The Empress of Britain

CHAPTER 47. Quebec

CHAPTER 48. Montreal

CHAPTER 49. New York

CHAPTER 50. Niagara Falls

CHAPTER 51. The missing chapters: Detroit

CHAPTER 52. Views of Detroit

CHAPTER 53. Driving around Detroit

CHAPTER 54. The Ford Factory

CHAPTER 55. Toronto

CHAPTER 56. Chicago

CHAPTER 57. The Grand Canyon

CHAPTER 58. Los Angeles

CHAPTER 59. Yosemite

CHAPTER 60. Pacific Islands

 

CHAPTER 60. Pacific Islands

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The last chapter of Mr Wallace’s travel diary.

CHAPTER 59. Yosemite

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Overawed by the majesty of the Yosemite National Park

CHAPTER 58. Los Angeles

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everything went well until we covered about half a mile and then the car just stopped. Geraldine could do nothing with it and I have never had time to learn anything about a car except how to keep the accelerator down

CHAPTER 57. The Grand Canyon

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A few yards from the hotel we looked down and suddenly without any warning the earth stopped short and the grand canyon of Arizona was below us.

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