Johnson's Journey Around the World. Fifty Thousand Miles of Travel, from the Golden Gate to the Golden Gate

This travel volume was published in 1887.

Twice Across the Alps.

Sights in Egypt, India, Africa, New Zealand and the
Sandwich Islands.

Six Thousand Miles Through Australia.

Daring Adventures of a Lone White Man among the Natives in
the Interior of Ceylon, China and Japan, Twelve
Times Across the Western Continent, with
a Description of all the Various
Routes and Sights of
Interest.

From the book's Preface:
During thirty years' residence in California,
I have led a busy life, enduring much hard toil
and the many privations incident to life in the
gold mines in early days. I have pursued many
different avocations: mind and body have been
in constant motion. After such an exciting career
I resolved to take a rest, and have a change of
scene ; to travel abroad, and visit all of the prin-
cipal places of note ; to traverse the ocean, and to
feast my eyes and mind upon the wonders of the
Old World. For the last twenty years I have had
an increasing desire to take a spin around the ball.
I felt it to be the greatest gift and treat that 1
could bestow upon myself, and finally determined
to put my ambitious desire into execution. So I
hastily prepared to go, and made arrangements to
remain as long as I should find enjoyment among
an unknown people in unknown lands. Now, what
I rely on to make this simple narrative interesting
is not the talent or literary training that I have
had, but my ability to present, in an original man-
ner, the information obtained, not only from guides
and interpreters, but from my own observation.

During my travels I kept a daily record of events
and incidents connected with my tour around the
world. And in writing an account of this extended
tour, brief mention will be made of my adventures
on this continent, across which I have made twelve
different trips during the last thirty years; I shall
state the years the journeys were made in, the
different routes traveled, the distance, and the
principal points of interest on each one. As this
narrative is to be filled up with mixed material,
and possibly presented in a somewhat rambling
manner, the writer asks the indulgence of the
reader, as he makes this his first venture in the
new and untried field of literature, remembering
always that a wide difference frequently exists
between the farmer and the educated traveler, the
plowshare and the pen.

Osmun Johnson.
Modesto, Cal., August 5, 1887.