The Story Teller of the Desert—"Backsheesh!" or, Life and Adventures in the Orient

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.