JOHN FOSTER FRASER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2517, 2 June 1909, Page 5

JOHN FOSTER FRASER.

TO VISIT AUSTRALIA.

ON A LECTURING TOUR

United Press Association —Copyright

SYDNEY, June 1

John Foster Fraser leaves England either this month or next on a lecturing tour of Australasia. [John Foster Fraser was born in Edinburgh in 1868. (He went through the training of a provincial journalist’s life, and went to London in 1892. He became reporter and descriptive writer in the Houses of Parliament. He spent the winter of 1895-96 roaming the Mediterranean coast on cargo boats; in 1896 started wdth two others to' bicycle round the world, and did it, through 17 countries, covering 19,237 miles in 774 days, the longest ride on record. Journeyed by train, boat, and sledge through ’Siberia, and made a dash across Manchuria (then closed to foreigners), in 1901. Travelled through the United States as special correspondent to consider industrial questions in 1902. Tn 1903 visited the Continent to write a series of articles on the Alien Invasion. In 1904 made extended tours in Canada to inquire into the emigration question, and in the autumn of 1905 investigated political conditions in the Balkan States. He spent several months in the- famine regions of Russia in 1906. His publications are: “Round the World on a Wheel,” “The Real Siberia,” “Vagabond Papers,” “America at Work,” .“Canada An It Is,” “Pictures from the Balkans,” “Red Russia,” “Life’s Contrasts.”]