The Amazing Incredible Internet

[Bluescelt]

As we all know through forums like this one, we can reach across the world to converse, learn and locate things that normally would be unknown to us. It is a powerful medium and also a scary one at times. A few years ago my wife Meg told me of her GGrandfather, the Rev Frederick Hastings. He was a Congregational Minister in England who wrote upwards of a dozen books and bicycled on 30000 miles on five continents. He was known as the "Cycling Parson" and was friends with the likes of H.M.Stanley and Mark Twain. Frederick lived from 1838-1937 and there is a video of him on Britishpathe'.com at 94yo bicycling and talking.

Well, after hearing this story I started to search out his books with the intent of trying to locate a copy of one as a present for Meg. I searched a bit and did find one in Britain so I purchased it and to my surprise when it came inside on the first page it had been autographed by the Reverend himself! As of today I have been lucky to find copies of 3 more titles that were published. Thanks to the amazing, incredible internet.