 The Workmans' works are colonialist in that they describe the people they meet and observe as "exotic or unusual, at worst as primitive or even subhuman".However, at times they make it clear that the people they encounter see them in a similar light, demonstrating that they were sometimes aware of their own biases.Between 1888 and 1893, the Workmans took bicycling tours of Switzerland, France, and Italy.