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Overland Through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life

Overland Through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life [Text] : Travels and adventures in Kamchatka, Siberia, China, Mongolia, Chinese Tartary, and European Russia, with full ac-counts of the Siberian Exiles, The Treatment, Condition, and Mode of Life, a Description of the Amoor River, and the Siberian Shores of the Frozen ocean : with an appropriate map, and nearly 200 Illustrations / T. W. Knox ... – Hartford, Conn ; Chicago, Ills. ; Cincinnati, Ohio. ; San Francisco, Cal. : American Publishing Company : F. G. Gilman & co. : Nettleton & Co. : H. H. Bancroft & Co., 1870. - 608 p., ill. : maps; - Author of «Camp Fire and Cotton Field». - Issued by Subscription only, and not for Sale in the Book Stores, residents op any State Desiring a Copy Should Address the Publishers, and an Agent will, Call upon them. - Эта книга - репринт оригинального издани, созданный на основе электронной копии высокого разрешения, которую очистили и обработали вручную, сохранив структуру и орфографию оригинального издания. Редкие, забытые и малоизвестные книги, изданные с петровских времен до наших дней, вновь доступны в виде печатных книг . . – [n. c.]

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Traveling through Siberia, China and Tatarstan

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The journey herein recorded was undertaken partly as a pleasure trip, partly as a journalistic enterprise, and partly in the interest of the company that attempted to carry out the plans of Major Collins to make an electric connection between Europe and the United States by way of Asia and Bering’s Straits. In the service of the Russo-American Telegraph Company, it may not be improper to state that the author’s official duties were so few, and his pleasures so numerous, as to leave the kindest recollections of the many persons connected with the enterprise