colporteur
/ˈkɑlˌpɔrtər/
noun
- A person who travels to sell books, newspapers, or religious materials, often going door-to-door or to remote places.
- The young colporteur learned to be persuasive and patient when offering books to skeptical customers.
- My great-uncle worked as a colporteur for a publishing company, traveling across three states.
- The colporteur arrived in the mountain village with a pack full of storybooks and Bibles.