From the Prefatory - "This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science. Still, there is a good deal of information in the book. I regret this very much; but really it could not be helped: information appears to stew out of me naturally." - The Author . This paperback book has 590 pages with black and white illustrations throughout.