author
Charles J. Gillis
A late-19th-century traveler with a taste for ambitious journeys, he wrote lively firsthand accounts of trips through Asia, Alaska, Yellowstone, and northern Europe. His books capture the excitement of long-distance travel in an era when getting there was half the adventure.
2 Audiobooks
Around the World in Seven Months
by Charles J. Gillis
Another Summer: The Yellowstone Park and Alaska
by Charles J. Gillis
About the author
Charles J. Gillis was a travel writer whose surviving books suggest a fondness for big itineraries and close observation. His best-known works include Around the World in Seven Months and Another Summer: The Yellowstone Park and Alaska, both now widely available in public-domain editions.
The books themselves place him in the 1890s, writing about extensive journeys that began from New York and ranged across Asia, the American West, Alaska, and later Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia. Another Summer was copyrighted in 1893 and described by the author as being printed for private distribution, while A Summer Vacation in Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Russia appeared in 1898.
Very little firmly verified biographical detail seems easy to confirm from standard reference sources, so Gillis is best known today through his travel narratives rather than through a well-documented personal biography. What stands out in those books is a clear, direct style and a strong sense of curiosity about places, routes, and the practical experience of travel in his time.