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What sends the creator of Sherlock Holmes across the world to argue that death is not the end?
In The Wanderings of a Spiritualist, Arthur Conan Doyle travels through Australia and New Zealand with his wife Jean and their children. His purpose reaches beyond sightseeing. Shaped by years of study and the grief of the First World War, he takes his belief in contact with the dead before crowds, newspapers, and hostile critics.
The journey moves between long sea passages, cities, landscapes, public lectures, and sittings with mediums. Doyle describes what he sees and hears as support for his convictions. This is a committed believer's account, not a detached inquiry: its appeal lies in meeting the storyteller behind Holmes as he defends an unpopular cause.
What you’ll discover
- The man behind Holmes Meet the doctor and detective writer whose spiritual convictions send him on a public mission.
- A family far from home Follow Doyle, Jean, and their children through a long voyage to Australia and New Zealand.
- Belief before a crowd Enter the lectures where literary fame draws audiences and spiritualist claims meet public resistance.
- Inside the medium's sitting Read the encounters Doyle presents as evidence, with his own interpretations firmly in view.
- Grief and the afterlife Explore how wartime sorrow shapes Doyle's conviction that the dead can still be reached.
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You will enjoy this if you love travel writing with a strong personal voice, the lives of famous authors, or the history of spiritualism told by a believer.
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- A cry in Wales sets the voyage in motion
- Two hundred and fifty people stand to testify
- The voyage out is full of opinions
- Adelaide welcomes the first lectures
- Melbourne tests him with a hostile press
- Stories that he thinks prove survival
- Sydney turns his tour into an epidemic
- New Zealand brings fog, canoes and clever opponents
- Brisbane, strikes and the tally of the tour
- Home by Ceylon and Paris, and how to read the book
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I viaggi di uno spiritista
by Arthur Conan Doyle · 1921
Arthur Conan Doyle sails to Australia with his wife and three children to tell crowds the dead still speak.
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What would make a famous storyteller leave his study and sail to the far side of the world with his wife, three children, a maid and a secretary? Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, answers in this travel book.
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A cry in Wales sets the voyage in motion
The book begins with a night Doyle never forgot. He and his wife have just sat two hours in a séance at Merthyr, in Wales, listening to voices they take to be their dead relatives. Outside, the sky glows red from the Dowlais ironworks. He grips her hand and cries out that the world must know.
That cry becomes a mission. He says the subject matters more than anything else he has written. When he finished his history of the Great War, he turned all his strength to speaking about spiritualism. Later, he says, signs came in such number that he spoke from knowledge rather than belief.
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Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Wanderings of a Spiritualist. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-wanderings-of-a-spiritualist.
Doyle, A. C. (2026). The wanderings of a Spiritualist. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-wanderings-of-a-spiritualist (Original work published 1921)
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Wanderings of a Spiritualist. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-wanderings-of-a-spiritualist.
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What is The Wanderings of a Spiritualist about?
It is Arthur Conan Doyle's account of his 1920 and 1921 lecture tour of Australia and New Zealand, with stops in Ceylon, India and Paris. He describes his talks, séances, travel, people he met and his views on many subjects.
Why did Conan Doyle travel to Australia?
He believed he had solid proof that the dead survive and communicate, and wanted to bring comfort to families who lost sons in the war. Australian spiritualist groups invited him, and he took his wife, three children, a maid and a secretary.
Who are the main people in the book?
Doyle's wife, whom he credits for the journey, and their children Denis, Malcolm and Baby. Others include agent Carlyle Smythe, Major Wood, mediums Bailey, Mrs. Harris and Mrs. Roberts, and Dr. Geley in Paris.
The author
Arthur Conan Doyle
1859–1930 · British detective novelist
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician born in Edinburgh in 1859. He practised medicine in England and wrote novels, short stories and histories. His Sherlock Holmes stories began with A Study in Scarlet in 1887. He also wrote The Lost World in 1912. He died in Crowborough, England, in 1930.
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