•The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 15 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.•Charles Beadle was the British author of: A Trip to the United States in 1887 (1887), The White Gambit (1900), A Whiteman's Burden (1912), Witch-Doctors (1922), The Blue Rib (1927), The Esquimau of Montparnasse (1929) and Expatriates at Large (1930).