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From Pekin to Calais by Land Harry De Windt

From Pekin to Calais by Land By Harry De Windt

From Pekin to Calais by Land by Harry De Windt


Summary

Filled with anecdotes and observations (occasionally tinged with condescension), this 1889 book is an entertaining account not only of the journey but of the lands, people and customs that de Windt and his companion encountered while travelling overland from Beijing to the coast of France.

From Pekin to Calais by Land Summary

From Pekin to Calais by Land by Harry De Windt

This 1889 book describes an unusual overland journey from Beijing to Calais, undertaken in 1887 by Harry de Windt (1856-1933), an explorer and travel writer, who later went from Paris to New York, also (mostly) by land. From a military family, he was the brother-in-law and aide-de-camp of Charles Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak, but his official duties left him with plenty of time for eye-catching journeys like this one. His only guidebook was John Bell's 1763 account of travelling from St Petersburg to Beijing across Siberia, but with advice on the route from a Russian embassy official, de Windt set out from Gravesend with a companion to sail to China and commence the land journey back. Filled with anecdotes and observations (occasionally tinged with condescension), the book is an entertaining account not only of the journey but of the lands, people and customs that de Windt encountered.

Table of Contents

1. Gravesend to Pekin; 2. Pekin; 3. Pekin to Kalgan; 4. Kalgan, or Chang-Chia-Kow; 5. The desert of Gobi; 6. Ourga to Kiakhta; 7. Kiakhta to Irkoutsk; 8. Irkoutsk; 9. Irkoutsk (cont.); 10. Irkoutsk to Tomsk; 11. Tomsk; 12. Perm to Calais.

Additional information

NLS9781108084635
9781108084635
110808463X
From Pekin to Calais by Land by Harry De Windt
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2016-07-28
692
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