The Long Voyage
31/12/1853
Forster records (Book 6, Chapter 3) that in the summer of 1848 Dickens was reading a 'surprising number of books of African and other travel for which he had an insatiable relish' and many of these are recalled in the following piece.
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Iron Incidents
The Roving Englishman: Greek Easter at Constantinople; A Defence of Fleas. [xxvi]
New Year's Eve
Down among the Dead Men
Tucked Up
Chip: Voices from the Deep
The Horse Guards Rampant
Based largely on Lewis E. Nolan, Cavalry; Its History and Tactics (1853).
Amy, the Child