Excerpt from The Overland Guide-Book: A Complete Vade-Mecum for the Overland Traveller Still in this - the comparative infancy of the steam route - nine-tenths of those whom fortune may carry to India, will prefer the most expeditious manner of proceeding thither; and it therefore becomes, in the highest degree. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.