John Foster Fraser

John Foster Fraser
Born	`1868 Great Britain
Occupation	author, bicyclist

Sir John Foster Fraser (1868-1936) was a British travel author. In July 1896, he and two friends, Edward Lunn and F. H. Lowe, took a bicycle trip around the world riding Rover safety bicycles. 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.

In the UK in 1916 he lectured on What I Saw in Russia.

Bibliography

• The Dancer Of Koom Ombo (1897)
• Round the World on a Wheel (1899)
• America at work (1903)
• The real Siberia, together with an account of a dash through Manchuria (1904)
• Canada as it is (1905)
• Pictures from the Balkans (1906)
• Vagabond papers (1906)
• Red Russia (1907)
• Life's contrasts (1908)
• Quaint Subjects of the King (1909)
• The British empire and what it means (1910)
• Australia, the making of a nation (1912)
• The land of veiled women; some wandering in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco (1913)
• Panama and what it means (1913)
• The amazing Argentine; a new land of enterprise (1914)
• The conquering Jew (1915)
• Russia of to-day (1915)

External links

• Works by John Foster Fraser at the Internet Archive