Sir John Foster Fraser (13 June 1868 – 7 July 1936) was a Scottish travel author. In July 1896, he and two friends, Samuel Edward Lunn and Francis Herbert Lowe, took a bicycle trip around the world riding Rover
safety bicycle
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s. They covered 19,237 miles in two years and two months, travelling through 17 countries and across three continents. He documented the trip in the book ''Round the World on a Wheel''.
Between books he was a journalist. In 1901 while working for ''
The Yorkshire Post'' he wrote, among other things, a 16-page description of
Queen Victoria
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's funeral. In the UK in 1916 he lectured on ''What I Saw in Russia''.
Fraser was knighted in the
1917 Birthday Honours
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.
Bibliography
* ''The Dancer of Koom Ombo''. 1897.
''Round the World on a Wheel'' London : Methuen & Co., 1899. 558 pages.
''America at Work'' London: Cassell & Co., 1903. 364 pages
German translation available
''The Real Siberia, Together with an Account of a Dash Through Manchuria'' London: Cassell & Co., 1904. 420 pages.
''Canada as It Is'' London: Cassell & Co., 1905. 420 pages.
''Pictures from the Balkans'' London: Cassell & Co., 1906. 298 pages.
''Red Russia'' New York: The John Lane Company, 1907. 403 pages.
“Book of the Year: Review of ''Red Russia'', by John Foster Fraser”
''Otautau Standard & Wallace County Chronicle, August 13, 1907. p. 7.
''Life's Contrasts''
London: Cassell & Co., 1908. 339 pages.
* ''Quaint Subjects of the King''. 1909.
* ''The British Empire and What it Means''. 1910.
''Australia, the Making of a Nation''
London: Cassell & Co., 1912. 446 pages
Also available on microfilm
''The Land of Veiled Women: Some Wandering in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco''
London: Cassell & Co., 1913. 288 pages.
''Panama and What it Means''
London: Cassell & Co., 1913. 410 pages
French translation available
''The Amazing Argentine: A New Land of Enterprise''
London: Funk & Wagnalls, Co., 1914. 408 pages.
''Deeds That Never Die: Stories of Heroism in the Great War''
London: Cassell & Co., 1914. 242 pages.
''The Conquering Jew''
London: Cassell & Co., 1915. . 304 pages. Also available fro
Google Books
''Russia of To-day''
London: Funk & Wagnalls, Co., 1915. 296 pages.
* ''The Red Passport''. London: Chapman and Hall, 1918. 248 pages.
References
External links
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Works by John Foster Fraser
at The Online Books Page
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Play by John Foster Fraser on Great War Theatre
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1868 births
1936 deaths
Scottish journalists
Scottish travel writers
Cycling journalists
Cycling writers
Scottish male writers
Writers from Edinburgh
Knights Bachelor