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THE STORY TELLER OF THE DESERT “BACKSHEESH!” - or, Life and Adventures in the Orient - By Thomas W. Knox - With Descriptive And Humorous Sketches Of Sights And Scenes Over The Atlantic, Down The Danube, Through The Crimea J In Turkey, Greece, Asia-Minor, Syria, Palestine, And Egypt; Up The Nile, In Nubia, And Equatorial Africa, Etc., Etc. - Embellished with nearly Two Hundred and Fifty Illustrations, including Forty-Eight full page Engravings, principally executed in London, Paris, and New York, from Photographs and original Sketches. - With fine Steel-Plate Portrait of the Author. - Hartford, Conn; A. D. Worthington & Co., Publishers - 1885
AUTHOR’S PREFACE.
ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAP I—STEAMER LIFE ON THE ATLANTIC.
“B A C K S H E E S H.”
CHAPTER I—STEAMER-LIFE ON THE ATLANTIC.
CHAPTER II—SCENES IN VIENNA—DOWN THE DANUBE.
CHAPTER III—LIFE AMONG THE MAGYARS.
CHAPTER IV—NEARING THE ORIENT—“BACKSHEESH!”
CHAPTER V—THROUGH THE CRIMEA—IN AND AROUND SEVASTOPOL.
Full title
The Story Teller of the Desert—"Backsheesh!" or, Life and Adventures in the Orient or, Life and Adventures in the Orient
Language
en
Duration
~19 hours (1123K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by David Widger from page images generously provided by the Internet Archive
Release date
2015-12-15
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1835–1896
A restless traveler and reporter, he turned real-world adventure into lively books that carried young readers across continents. His work blends firsthand observation, wartime experience, and a strong taste for exploration.
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