- Description: Frederick Diodati Thompson, an American traveler and author, published In the Track of the Sun: Readings from the Diary of a Globe Trotter in 1893, lavishly illustrated by Harry Fenn, one of the leading engravers and illustrators of late-Victorian America. The book follows the itinerary of a late-19th-century globetrotter across Europe, Egypt, India, Ceylon, Burma, China, Japan, and the Pacific, before returning to the United States. Its numerous illustrations - port scenes, landscapes, temples, and portraits of local life - give the volume both documentary and aesthetic value, turning it into a visual travelogue that exemplifies the high point of the illustrated travel book tradition
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1850-1906
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://archive.org/details/intrackofsunread00thom
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113804666
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Thompson, Frederick Diodati, e Harry Fenn. In the Track of the Sun; Readings from the Diary of a Globe Trotter. New York: D. Appleton, 1893.
Mr. Thompson left New York for Chicago on October 14th, 1891, and returned to that city on May 18th in the following year. This handsome volume records by pen and pencil what he saw and thought of lands, seas, men, and cities during that time. He began by going across the Continent to Victoria, British Columbia ; went thence to Vancouver, and from Vancouver sailed to Japan. Japan seems to have exercised on him its customary fascination. China did not please him as much. (Why, we may ask, the very hideous picture of "After the Execution" ?).
