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The Russian Road to China (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Russian Road to China N ancient way leads across northern Asia to the Chinese borderland. The steel of the great Siberian Railroad harnesses now the stretch which mounts the Urals, pierces the steppes, winds through the Altai foothills, and by cyclopean cuts and tun nels girdles Lake Baikal. From Verhneudinsk south ward, it has remained as an ancient post-road leading through the trans-baikal highlands to the frontier garrison town of Kiahta. Over the Mon golian border at Maimachen, it has narrowed into a camel-trail threading the barren hills to the encampment of the Tatar hordes at holy Urga. Thence it strikes across the sandy wastes of Gobi, and passes the ramparts of the Great Wall of China, on its way toward Peking and the Pacific. Through five centuries this road has been build ing. Cossacks blazed its way; musketoon-armed Strelitz, adventuring traders, convicts condemned for sins or sincerity, land-seeking peasants, exiled dissenters, voyaging Officials all have trampled it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Release date Australia
November 11th, 2018
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Illustrations
58 Illustrations; Illustrations, black and white
Imprint
Forgotten Books
Pages
488
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Dimensions
152x229x25
ISBN-13
9781332588688
Product ID
25543632

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