Travel to India and back by the Cape Horn route on a sailing ship back in 1859 if only in your mind. Lithographic plates from John Corbet Anderson’s 1859 work “To India and back by the Cape” which was a self-published guide book for adventurous travelers.

Plates (llustrations) from books 1 Minute
Madeira. Page 14 of To India and back by the Cape. 1859. John Corbet Anderson, artist. Collections of the University of California Libraries. MSN, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/toindiabackbycap00franrich/page/n14/mode/1up

Teneriffe. Page 17 of To India and back by the Cape.1859. John Corbet Anderson, artist. Collections of the University of California Libraries. MSN, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/toindiabackbycap00franrich/page/n17/mode/1up

Tristan da Cunha. Madeira. Page 33 of To India and back by the Cape. 1859. John Corbet Anderson, artist. Collections of the University of California Libraries. MSN, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/toindiabackbycap00franrich/page/n33/mode/1up

Off the cape in 40 degrees South: sighting an iceberg. . Page 40 of To India and back by the Cape. 1859. John Corbet Anderson, artist. Collections of the University of California Libraries. MSN, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/toindiabackbycap00franrich/page/n40/mode/1up
Ceylon. Page 47 of To India and back by the Cape. 1859. John Corbet Anderson, artist. Collections of the University of California Libraries. MSN, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/toindiabackbycap00franrich/page/n47/mode/1up
Calcutta. Page 52 of To India and back by the Cape. 1859. John Corbet Anderson, artist. Collections of the University of California Libraries. MSN, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/toindiabackbycap00franrich/page/n52/mode/1up
Pilot Signal at the Sandheads. Page 60 of To India and back by the Cape. 1859. John Corbet Anderson, artist. Collections of the University of California Libraries. MSN, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/toindiabackbycap00franrich/page/n60/mode/1up
Saint Helena. Page 83 of To India and back by the Cape. 1859. John Corbet Anderson, artist. Collections of the University of California Libraries. MSN, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/toindiabackbycap00franrich/page/n83/mode/1up

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