Only seven other people on Goodreads have read this book - the least popular book I read in 2017. All of those other readers gave this book 4 or 5 stars - making it also the highest rated book I read this year. (4.56 - my four stars brought the average down.)
Almost as good as (and as long as) one of his novels.
Just as when I finished his autobiography, my eyes were filled with tears when I read the last words of this wonderful book about an extraordinary man. I miss him.
Overall an extraordinary incite into one of the Best minds of the Victorian area. He was a racist and fox hunter , eeeew very Victorian. Instrumental in Developing changes to a world class Postal system . A early proponent of the "Copy write " Americans were the Victorian Chinese in violating intellectual property. Very many incites to the way History evolved during Victorian times as reflected in the accounts of a very active world traveler.