 This manual of survival in the wild, was a 19th-century equivalent of the Whole Earth Catalogue, and still retains its usefulness in the 21st century as an encyclopaedia of practical living.Guides to travelling featuring useful hints were quite fashionable at the time when Livingstone, Speke, Burton and Stanley were household names.Francis Galton wrote "The Art of Travel" in 1855 and subtitled it "Shifts and Contrivances available in Wild Countries".