Travel

Anthony Trollope by and after Herbert Watkins albumen carte-de-visite, late 1850s-early 1860s 3 1/2 in. x 2 1/4 in. (88 mm x 56 mm) image size Given by Public appeal, 1973 Photographs Collection NPG x12824

Travel

Trollope was one of the greatest travellers of his age. He travelled across Britain and the world, on foot, on horseback, by rail and ship. As travel became easier, he travelled further, visiting Australia, America, Ceylon, and South Africa.

There is something enticing to an Englishman in the idea of riding off through the desert with a pistol girt about his waist, a portmanteau strapped on one horse behind him, and an only attendant seated on another behind him. There is a soupçon of danger in the journey just sufficient to give it excitement.

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