Excerpt from Girdling the Globe: From the Land of the Midnight Sun to the Golden Gate, a Record of a Tour Around the World God permits some to travel and see the marvels of his works displayed in the creation of the world. Others are shut in by environments which preclude all possibility of seeing even their own country. Those who can and do go are under obligation to those who remain at home. Recognizing this obligation, the writer feels constrained to give this record of a tour around the world. It is written with the hope that it will be helpful to those who read. God has given us the desire to know, and knowledge broadens the mind and gives one a higher conception of the might and power of the great Creator. The "we" used by the author includes his wife, who was his constant companion on the long journey around the globe, and who has been a constant inspiration to him in all his work. The record of northern Europe includes in part two journeys, and hitherto unpublished notes on both arc drawn upon. In these tours we traveled over fifty thousand miles, visited four of the great divisions of the globe, passing through twenty-four different countries, kingdoms and empires. We spent nearly one hundred days at sea, sailing on more than thirty different ships. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.