From Paris to Pekin over Siberian Snows

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Author

Meignan, Victor, 1846-1938

Title

From Paris to Pekin over Siberian Snows A Narrative of a Journey by Sledge over the Snows of European Russia and Siberia, by Caravan Through Mongolia, Across the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall, and by Mule Palanquin Through China to Pekin

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E-text prepared by Charlie Howard and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia

Subject

Mongolia -- Description and travel

Category

Text

eBook-No.

48373

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48373

Release Date

February 27, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.FROM PARIS TO PEKIN OVER SIBERIAN SNOWS.
2. 2.PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.FROM PARIS TO PEKIN. — CHAPTER I. FROM PARIS TO ST. PETERSBURG.
5. 5.CHAPTER II. ST. PETERSBURG TO MOSCOW.
6. 6.CHAPTER III. MOSCOW—NIJNI-NOVGOROD.
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. FROM NIJNI-NOVGOROD TO KAZAN.
8. 8.CHAPTER V. KAZAN—JOURNEY TO PERM.
9. 9.CHAPTER VI. PERM—THE ROAD TO CATHERINEBURG.
10. 10.CHAPTER VII. OUR PARTY ON THE ROAD TO TUMEN.
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. A PERILOUS NIGHT ADVENTURE ON THE STEPPE OF OMSK.
12. 12.CHAPTER IX. THE COLD ON THE WAY TO TOMSK.
13. 13.CHAPTER X. THE GOVERNMENT OF YENISSEISK AND KRASNOIARSK.
14. 14.CHAPTER XI. KRASNOIARSK TO IRKUTSK.
15. 15.CHAPTER XII. IRKUTSK.
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII. ATTEMPT AT ESCAPE BY A POLISH EXILE.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV. IRKUTSK TO LAKE BAIKAL.
18. 18.CHAPTER XV. LAKE BAIKAL TO KIACHTA
19. 19.CHAPTER XVI. KIACHTA TO MAIMATCHIN.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVII. MAIMATCHIN TO URGA.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII. URGA AND THE ENTRY INTO THE DESERT OF GOBI.
22. 22.CHAPTER XIX. CARAVAN ACROSS THE DESERT OF GOBI.
23. 23.CHAPTER XX. FROM THE GREAT WALL TO TCHAH-TAO.
24. 24.CHAPTER XXI. TCHAH-TAO TO PEKIN.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXII. PEKIN—DEPARTURE.
26. 26.NOTES. — Note 1, Chap. II., Page 22 . — Note 2, Chap. VII., Page 127 . — Note 3, Chap. IX., Page 165 . — Note 4, Chap. XI., Page 188 . — Note 5, Chap. XII., Page 213 . — Note 6, Chap. XIII., Page 225 . — Note 7, Chap. XIII., Page 226 . — Note 8, Chap. XIII., Page 229 . — Note 9, Chap. XIII., Page 231 . — Note 10, Chap. XIII., Page 240 . — Note 11, Chap. XV., Page 278 . — Note 12, Chap. XVI., Page 287 . — Note 13, Chap. XVI., Page 301 . — Note 14, Chap. XIX., Page 347 . — Note 15, Chap. XIX., Page 350 .
27. 27.Transcriber’s Note

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