Boy Travellers Series by Thomas Knox

Published by Harper & Brothers
1. Boy Travellers in the Far East. Part First: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Japan and China 1879
2. Boy Travellers in the Far East. Part Second: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Siam and Java 1880
3. Boy Travellers in the Far East. Part Third: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Ceylon and India 1881
4. Boy Travellers in the Far East. Part Fourth: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to the Holy land 1882
5. Boy Travellers in the Far East. Part Fifth: Adventures of Two Youths in an Adventure to Africa 1883
6. Boy Travellers in South America 1885
7. Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire 1886
8. Boy Travellers on the Congo 1887
9. Boy Travellers in Australasia 1888
10. Boy Travellers in Mexico 1889
11. Boy Travellers in Great Britain 1890
12. Boy Travellers in Northern Europe 1891
13. Boy Travellers in Central Europe 1892
14. Boy Travellers in Southern Europe 1893
15. Boy Travellers in the Levant 1894

This series was published by Harper & Brothers. The copyright dates are noted above after the title.
First editions have the have the copyright date noted below the imprint on the title page.

Numerous illustrations

The first three titles have detailed book specific illustrated endpapers. Subsequent books have map endpapers.

Two formats:

Format 1:
1. Cloth. Covers and spines with book specific illustrations in colors and gilt. Gilt lettering in the spine and cover. 9” x 7”.
This format was seen until 1898. Volumes #1-15

Format 2:
2. Cloth. Maroon. Gilt lettering with a wreath design. Each title has the same cover.
9” x 7”. This format was seen from 1898 and later.

Format 1 books:

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Endpapers Book #1

Endpapers Book #2

Endpapers Book #3

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Format 2:
Volumes #1-15


Addenda:
The stories were written by Thomas Knox between 1879 and 1894 and published by Harper and Brothers. As with a number of the "upscale" travelogue series, one book was published per year. The new book was usually published just before Christmas in the copyright year. These volumes were well bound as would be expected by their high price.

Dr. Bronson along with his nephew Fred and Fred's cousin Frank Bassett journey throughout the world. Many of the travels traced the actual previous footsteps of the author. Frank's mother and sister Mary joined the others in the later books.

He joined the California National Guard as a Lieutenant Colonel but was injured at a battle in Missouri.

After the war as an employee of the Russo-American Telegraph Company he went to Northern Asia on an expedition that was laying telegraph lines.

He embarked on a world tour in 1877. He visited with the King of Siam during that trip and established a relationship with the King that resulted in Knox teaching the methods of American education to the King. Because of his travels in the various parts of the world, his writings had a realism that other juvenile travelogue fiction did not always possess.

In 1881 (copyright 1880) he wrote a little monograph: How to Travel. Knox was quite the explorer/traveler. Putnam reprinted this title in 1887.