Regarded as one of America's foremost travel writers, a respected poet, and author of what is often called "America's first gay novel," Pennsylvania-born Bayard Taylor set out for a trek across Scandinavia in 1855 with the intention of capturing native life so accurately on paper that readers would liken his prose to photographs. His letters containing the accounts of his journey were published in newspapers then republished under the title Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures.
"Bayard Taylor is certainly a remarkable man. The more we see of him in his writings, and the more we hear of him, the more we admire him. He is decidedly the American traveller, and travel writer."
—New Haven Courier
"As a writer of travels especially, he has never found his equal."
—Buffalo Democracy
"As a vivid delineator, it would be difficult to overmatch Mr. Taylor."
—Liverpool Standard
"There is no romance to us quite equal to one of Bayard Taylor's books of travel. Fact, under his wonderful pen, is more charming than Fiction."
—Hartford Republican
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