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Michael Myers Shoemaker
1853–1924
A restless American traveler turned long journeys into vivid books, writing about places from India and Burma to Siberia and the South Seas. His work captures the curiosity and movement of travel writing at the turn of the twentieth century.
2 Audiobooks
Wanderings in Ireland
by Michael Myers Shoemaker
Winged Wheels in France
by Michael Myers Shoemaker
About the author
Born in Covington, Kentucky, in 1853, Michael Myers Shoemaker became known as an American author and traveler. He died in Paris in 1924 and was later buried at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati.
Shoemaker wrote a string of travel books that carried readers across a wide map of the world. Among the titles linked to him are The Great Siberian Railway from St. Petersburg to Pekin, Trans-Caspia; the Sealed Provinces of the Czar, Indian Pages and Pictures, Quaint Corners of Ancient Empires, Wanderings in Ireland, and Winged Wheels in France.
His books suggest a writer drawn to movement, distant places, and the everyday details of travel. For listeners who enjoy older travel writing, his work offers a window into how an American observer described the wider world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.