Author:Thomas Wallace Knox

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Thomas Wallace Knox
(1835–1896)

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American journalist, author, and world traveler, known primarily for his work as a New York Herald correspondent during the American Civil War. As an author, Knox wrote over 45 books, including a popular series of travel adventure books for boys.

Works

Overland through Asia (1870) (transcription project) (external scan)

Backsheesh! or Life and adventures in the Orient: with descriptive and humorous sketches of sights and scenes over the Atlantic, down the Danube, through the Crimea, in Turkey, Greece, Asia-Minor, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, up the Nile, in Nubia, and equatorial Africa, etc., etc. ... (1875) (transcription project)

The Young Nimrods in North America (1881) (transcription project)
Decisive Battles Since Waterloo. The Most Important Military Events from 1815 to 1887, 1887
Boy Travellers Series

In the Far East (5 vols)

Japan & China (1879) (transcription project)
Siam & Java (1880) (external scan)
Ceylon & India (1881) (external scan) (1902 ed.) (external scan)
Egypt & Palestine (1882) (external scan)

Africa (1883) (external scan)
In the Open Polar Sea (1885) (external scan)
In South America (1885) (transcription project)
In the Russian Empire (1886)
On the Congo (1887) (external scan)
The Boy Travellers in Australasia (1888) (external scan)
In Mexico (1890) (external scan)
In Great Britain & Ireland (1890) (external scan)
In Northern Europe (1891) (external scan)
In Central Europe (1892) (transcription project)
In Southern Europe (1893) (external scan)
In the Levant (1894)

In Wild Africa - Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey Through the Sahara Desert (1895) (transcription project)

Works about the author

“Modern Battle Fields” in The North American Review Volume 145, Number 377, December, 1887
"Knox, Thomas Wallace," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1891)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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