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From Pekin To Calais By Land Illustrated Edition
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Author : Harry de Windt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-10
From Pekin To Calais By Land Illustrated Edition written by Harry de Windt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-10 with History categories.
This 1889 book is an entertaining account of the overland journey de Windt and his companion undertook from Beijing to Calais.
From Pekin To Calais By Land
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Author : Harry De Windt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
From Pekin To Calais By Land written by Harry De Windt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Asia categories.
From Pekin To Calais By Land
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Author : Harry De Windt
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
From Pekin To Calais By Land written by Harry De Windt and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. THE DESERT OP GOBI. The population of Mongolia, an elevated plateau lying about four thousand feet above sea-level, is roughly estimated at between three and four millions, but the difficulties of obtaining anything like an accurate census of the tribes inhabitating this vast tableland are obvious. Of this number, over thirty thousand inhabit Urga, the capital and residence of the " Kootookta," or living God of the Mongol religion, "Buddhism." The power of this human deity is purely nominal. He is allowed to reign on sufferance by the Emperor of China, who governs, more or less nominally, the whole of Mongolia, from the Siberian frontier to the mountains of Tibet. The Mongol Tartars pay lax, though somewhat irregularly, to the Pekin Government, the native khans or princes being responsible for the revenues of their several " khanates " or districts. The name " Gobi" is given by the Mongols to any district more or less destitute of water, but the desert, where we crossed it, presents but few of the characteristics with which we usually associate the name. It may better be described as a vast plain or steppe, extending from the northern side of the Great Wall of China to the Russian frontier-town of Kiakhta, a distance of over eight hundred miles. With the exception, however, of about fifty miles of sandy waste midway across, the north-western portion is seldom entirely devoid of vegetation of some sort or another, be it rich, luxuriant pasture, or dry, withered scrub. Perhaps the most curious thing about this so-called desert is, that although grass is so plentiful, and in many places wild flowers grow in profusion, water is very scarce. In the summer months frequent and heavy rain storms do much to lessen this evil, but the...
From Pekin To Calais By Land
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Author : Harry de Windt
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2016-05-24
From Pekin To Calais By Land written by Harry de Windt and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-24 with categories.
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From Pekin To Calais By Land
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Author : H De Windt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-04-10
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Such was the remark made by a young lady whom I had the honour of taking down to dinner a few days previous to embarking upon the voyage of which I am about to narrate my experiences. Although I trust there are not many educated persons who, like my fair friend, are unaware that Pekin and Paris are actually undivided by sea, I imagine there are but few who, if put down at Calais, and told to find their way overland to Pekin, would know how to set about it, fewer still who have any practical knowledge of that vast but comparatively unknown country separating the Chinese Empire from Russia proper, Siberia.
From Pekin To Calais By Land
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Author : H De Windt
language : en
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Release Date : 2020-04-13
From Pekin To Calais By Land written by H De Windt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-13 with categories.
Such was the remark made by a young lady whom I had the honour of taking down to dinner a few days previous to embarking upon the voyage of which I am about to narrate my experiences. Although I trust there are not many educated persons who, like my fair friend, are unaware that Pekin and Paris are actually undivided by sea, I imagine there are but few who, if put down at Calais, and told to find their way overland to Pekin, would know how to set about it, fewer still who have any practical knowledge of that vast but comparatively unknown country separating the Chinese Empire from Russia proper, Siberia.
From Pekin To Calais By Land
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Author : H De Windt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-04-10
From Pekin To Calais By Land written by H De Windt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-10 with categories.
Such was the remark made by a young lady whom I had the honour of taking down to dinner a few days previous to embarking upon the voyage of which I am about to narrate my experiences. Although I trust there are not many educated persons who, like my fair friend, are unaware that Pekin and Paris are actually undivided by sea, I imagine there are but few who, if put down at Calais, and told to find their way overland to Pekin, would know how to set about it, fewer still who have any practical knowledge of that vast but comparatively unknown country separating the Chinese Empire from Russia proper, Siberia.
From Pekin To Calais By Land
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Author : Harry De Windt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-07-28
From Pekin To Calais By Land written by Harry De Windt and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-28 with History categories.
This 1889 book is an entertaining account of the overland journey de Windt and his companion undertook from Beijing to Calais.
The Bookseller And The Stationery Trades Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
The Bookseller And The Stationery Trades Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Bibliography categories.
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
The Spectator
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
The Spectator written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with English literature categories.