Ebook: The Art of Travel or, Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1855. — (1st edition. — Facsimile: 2nd edition - 1856; 3rd edition - 1860; 5th edition - 1872).This engaging compendium of advice ('shifts and contrivances') to travellers and explorers 'in wild parts' went through many editions. Galton collected in it both his own practical experiences, gathered while travelling in South-West Africa, but also those of other travellers, continually improving it as new material became available.Contents (randomly): Water, Fire, Clothes, Food and Cookery, Defence, Skin Horns, Medicine, etc."The Author of this volume, which is intended as a Manual for all who have to rough it, whether they be explorers, emigrants, missionaries, or soldiers, earnestly invites such of his readers as can speak from actual experience of the matters on which it treats, to finish him with remarks, sketches, and corrections, as, in the event of a revised edition being published, they would be of the greatest value to him.
December 14, 1854"
(To the First Edition).