This is a must have book for anybody interested in antique World Travel books and in Nehemiah Matson. He climbed mountains and was entranced by Alpine horns and bells.
Art, Brussels lace, loaves of bread five to six feet long, zoos, the cost of Holland's dikes, prisons under palaces, gorgeous cathedrals, the crowded, unsanitary cities, all these interested the adventurous Nehemiah.