The day after we were graduated at Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., we left for New York. Thence we sailed for Liverpool on June 23, 1890. Just three years afterward, lacking twenty days, we rolled into New York on our wheels, having "put a girdle round the earth"
From Across Asia on a Bicycle by Thomas Gaskell Allen & William Lewis Sachtleben who journeyed from Constantinople to Peking. More information on the book can be found here. Thanks to Jack Thurston for the heads up.














