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Samenvatting van Mijn leven in vele staten en in vreemde landen
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A four-year-old is shipped from plague-struck New Orleans like freight, and George Francis Train never stops moving.
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Samenvatting: 8 min leestijd
- Leestijd
- Ongeveer 5 h 20 min4 h 15 min fast, 6 h 25 min slow
- Lengte
- 76.500 woorden
- Bibliotheekniveau
- Gemiddeld longer sentences, everyday words
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- 1902by George Francis Train
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Mijn leven in vele staten en in vreemde landen in short
Train's memoir follows one stubborn path. An orphan reaches a New England farm, learns work and strict rules, and walks into a Boston shipping house at sixteen. From there he builds clippers, runs offices in Liverpool and Melbourne and travels through Asia.
What Mijn leven in vele staten en in vreemde landen is about
What does it feel like to be shipped across the sea at four years old, labelled like a bag of coffee, after your mother and sisters have died? George Francis Train answers that question in the first pages of his memoir, and then never stands still.
Train dictated this life story in 1902 from a small room in the Mills Hotel in New York. He says he never knowingly lied. You will meet a farm boy and a young shipping manager, then follow him to Melbourne, China and Paris, to railways, a firing squad and a cell at the Tombs.
Voor wie is het?. You will love this if you enjoy larger-than-life memoirs, tales of ships, railways and gold rushes, and a narrator who tells every story with a wink and a boast.
The 10 key ideas
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An orphan shipped north like freight
Train opens with his earliest memory, and it is a dark one. In New Orleans in 1833, yellow fever empties the city.
His three little sisters are laid in rough pine boxes. Then a larger box is carried out for his mother. The boy watches from the window and never forgets.
His father pins a card to his coat, naming him as freight for a Boston uncle aboard the ship Henry. The father kisses him and stays behind. He never sees his father again. Sixty years later an aunt finds the letter his father wrote the day the ship sailed, and Train says it came like a cry from the dead.
A life that begins with losing everything can still become a life of motion and nerve.
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A farm, a forecastle and strict Methodists
The voyage itself is comic.
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From grocery boy to shipping manager
At fourteen, Train walks into Boston to find work.
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Clippers, gold fever and Irish passengers
When gold is found in California in 1848, Train sees that the trade needs bigger ships.
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Liverpool, a wife and a sea rescue
In 1850, Train takes charge of the Liverpool office.
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Melbourne, gold and a rebellion that never was
In 1853, Train quarrels with Colonel Train over a partnership and sails for Australia.
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Around Asia to the Crimea
Train sets out for Japan, but the Crimean War blocks his way.
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Paris, Spanish money and the first tramways
After returning to New York in 1856, Train publishes his collected letters.
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Union speeches and the Union Pacific
When the Civil War begins, Train is in England, where he finds many people siding with the South.
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Commune, candidacy and a lunatic's cell
After the railway, Train circles the globe, and in October 1870 he lands at Marseilles, where a crowd hails him as a liberator.
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What is My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands about?
It is the dictated life story of George Francis Train, from his orphaned childhood in New Orleans through shipping, railways, travel and politics. He describes clippers, Liverpool, Melbourne, Asia, the Union Pacific, the French Commune and his trips around the world.
Did George Francis Train really inspire Around the World in Eighty Days?
Train says Jules Verne based his novel on Train's own 1870 trip, which he completed in eighty days. That is his claim in the book. He also made two later circuits, in sixty-seven and a half days and in sixty.
What is the Crédit Mobilier in Train's story?
Train says he adapted a French credit idea to American use by buying a Pennsylvania charter and renaming it the Crédit Mobilier of America. It financed the Union Pacific Railway, and he calls it the first trust in the country.
Is the book easy to follow?
It reads like a lively conversation, since Train spoke it aloud. Short chapters, funny anecdotes and plain language carry you from one place to the next, and each chapter centers on one stage of his life, so it is simple to pick up.
Why was Train declared a lunatic?
Train says he printed three columns of Bible quotations in his paper to defend two women charged with obscenity. He was arrested, never tried on that charge and held as insane by the courts. He treats it as a persecution.
Verwijs naar deze uitgave
Train, George Francis. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/my-life-in-many-states-and-in-foreign-lands.
Train, G. F. (2026). My life in many states and in foreign lands. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/my-life-in-many-states-and-in-foreign-lands (Original work published 1902)
Train, George Francis. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/my-life-in-many-states-and-in-foreign-lands.
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