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East by West, Vol. 2

by Henry W. Lucy

East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East in 1883, within two or three decades of the American Civil War, the Indian Mutiny and the end of Japan's isolation from the western world. Lucy was one of the most influential journalists of his day and, as "Toby M.P.", a noted humorist in Punch magazine.

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Sir Henry William Lucy was a famed English political journalist of the Victorian era, acknowledged as the first great lobby correspondent. He wrote for Punch, Strand Magazine, The Observer, The New Yo...

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