231:“Certainly, there are not yet enough French people who, taking advantage of their wealth and independence, or who, encouraged by their too frequently fearful families, decide to travel the world. Are we not counting too easily those who, free of apprehensions that are for the most part ill-founded, go to seek in our own colonies, in these distant centers where the English language now reigns unchallenged, the activity and prosperity that so many foreigners know how to find there? If the story of our journey could, in its small way, contribute to bringing out of our old Europe a too hesitant youth, and stimulate the interest that, nowadays, everyone should devote to questions that have become universal, I would have achieved my goal. In that case, I shall be glad to have withdrawn these simple "Souvenirs de notre Tour du Monde" from the shadows for which I had originally intended them.”
224:, 20 of them taken by himself, and five maps tracing his route through his journey. His book contains the letters he sent to his family, mainly his sister Félicie, during his 18-months journey to English India, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and Cochinchina (Vietnam), Java, China, Japan, and America. Among the countries he visited, he spent most of his book talking about Japan, where he spent a quarter of his trip there alone. Furthermore, of the 24 photographs, 11 are from Japan. In addition to this travelogue, his travel diary has also been found in the Musée-Hôtel Le Vergeur, which covers the world tour from the start until May 1882, before arriving in Japan. His letters also mention a ‘special Japan’ diary which has not been found so far.
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camera with glass plates covered with an impressionable layer of gelatin-silver bromide, a technique widespread since 1880.” The camera, its plates, and its accessories were so heavy that they required an additional rickshaw just for them. The difficulty of using this equipment prevented Krafft from
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