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Knox, Thomas Wallace

journalist, author, was born June 26, 1835, in Pembroke, N. H. He was a journalist and traveler whose home was in New York city, and the author of Overland Through Asia; Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field; Backsheesh; Underground Life; John; The Boy Travellers Series, in sixteen volumes; How to Travel; Pocket Guide Around the World; The Voyage of the Vivian; Hunting Adventures on Land and Sea; Marco Polo for Boys and Girls; Decisive Battles since Waterloo; Life of Robert Fulton; Hunters Three; In Wild Africa; The Siberian Exiles; and The Lost Army. He died in 1896.

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