Occupation author, bicyclist Name John Fraser | Role Author | |
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Born `1868 Great Britain Died 1936, London, United Kingdom Books Round the world on a wheel, The conquering Jew, The Amazing Argentine, Russia of To‑day, America at Work | ||
Sir John Foster Fraser (13 June 1868 – 7 July 1936) was a Scottish travel author. In July 1896, he and two friends, Samuel Edward Lunn and Francis Herbert Lowe, took a bicycle trip around the world riding Rover safety bicycles. They covered 19,237 miles in two years and two months, travelling through 17 countries and across three continents. He documented the trip in the book Round the World on a Wheel.
Between books he was a journalist. In 1901 while working for The Yorkshire Post he wrote, among other things, a 16-page description of Queen Victoria's funeral. In the UK in 1916 he lectured on What I Saw in Russia.
Fraser was knighted in the 1917 Birthday Honours.
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