From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches
Letters of Travel

Table of Contents

Preface
Letters of Marque:
1. Of the beginning of things
2. Shows the charm of Rajputana and of Jeypore, the city of the Globe-trotters
3. Does not in any sort describe the dead city of Amber
4. The Temple of Mahadeo and the manners of such as see India
5. Of the sordidness of the supreme government on the revenue side
6. Showing how Her Majesty's mails went to Udaipur and fell out by the way
7. Touching the children of the sun and their city
8. Divers passages of speech and action whence the nature, arts, and disposition of the king and his subjects may be observed
9. Of the pig-drive which was a panther-killing, and of the departure to Chitor
10. A little of the history of Chitor, and the malpractices of a she-elephant
11. Proves conclusively the existence of the dark tower visited by Childe Rolande, and of 'Bogey' who frightens children
12. Contains the history of the Bhumia of Jhaswara, and the record of a visit to the house of strange stories
13. A king's house and country
14. Among the Houyhnhnms
15. Treats of the startling effect of a reduction in wages and the pleasures of loaferdom
16. The comedy of errors and the exploitation of Boondi
17. Shows that there may be poetry in a bank, and attempts to show the wonders of the palace of Boondi
18. Of the uncivilised night and the departure to things civilised
19. Comes back to the railway, after reflections on the management of the Empire
From Sea to Sea:
1. Of freedom and the necessity of using her
2. The River of the Lost Footsteps and the Golden Mystery upon its banks
3. The City of Elephants which is governed by the Great God of Idleness, who lives on the top of a hill
4. Showing how I came to Palmiste Island the place of Paul and Virginia, and fell asleep in a garden
5. Of the threshold of the Far East and the dwellers thereon
6. Of the well-dressed islanders of Singapur and their diversions
7. Shows how I arrived in China and saw entirely through the Great Wall and out upon the other side
8. Of Jenny and her friends
9. Some talk with a Taipan and a General
10. Shows how I came to Goblin Market and took a scunner at it and cursed the Chinese People
11. Of Japan at ten hours' sight, containing a complete account of the manners and customs of its people, a history of its constitution, products, art, and civilisation, and omitting a tiffin in a tea-house with O-Toyo
12. A further consideration of Japan
13. The Japanese theatre and the story of the thunder cat
14. Explains in what manner I was taken to Venice in the rain, and climbed into a devil fort
15. Kioto, and how I fell in love with the chief belle there after I had conferred with certain China merchants who trafficked in tea
16. The party in the parlour who played games
17. Of the nature of the Tokaido and Japanese railway construction
18. Concerning a hot-water tap, and some general conversation
19. The legend of Nikko Ford and the story of the avoidance of misfortune
20. Shows how I grossly libelled the Japanese army, and edited a civil and military gazette which is not in the least trustworthy
21. Shows the similarity between the Babu and the Japanese
22. Shows how I came to America before my time and was much shaken in body and soul
23. How I got to San Francisco and took tea with the natives there
24. Shows how through folly I assisted at a murder and was afraid.