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Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life

Chapter 1: OVERLAND THROUGH ASIA. PICTURES OF SIBERIAN, CHINESE, AND TARTAR LIFE. TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN KAMCHATKA, SIBERIA, CHINA, MONGOLIA, CHINESE TARTARY, AND EUROPEAN RUSSIA, WITH FULL ACCOUNTS OF THE SIBERIAN EXILES, THEIR 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.
By Thomas Wallace Knox
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The narrative recounts an overland journey through Siberia, Kamchatka, China, Mongolia, and neighboring regions, combining travel anecdote, landscape description, and journalistic observation. It records meetings with local peoples, customs, and daily practices while detailing modes of transport, climate challenges, and frontier settlements. Extended sections describe the Amur River and the condition, treatment, and routines of Siberian exiles. The expeditionary purpose and logistical concerns, including a telegraph project, shape accounts of routes and organization, and numerous illustrations and a map supplement the author’s firsthand reporting.

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Title: Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life

Author: Thomas Wallace Knox

Release date: October 20, 2004 [eBook #13806]
Most recently updated: October 28, 2024

Language: English

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Note: Two spellings, “Tunguse” and “Tunguze,” are used throughout the book for the same tribe.

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FRONTISPIECE, THE AUTHOR IN SIBERIAN COSTUME

OVERLAND
THROUGH ASIA.
 
PICTURES OF
SIBERIAN, CHINESE, AND TARTAR
LIFE.
 
TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN KAMCHATKA, SIBERIA, CHINA, MONGOLIA, CHINESE TARTARY, AND EUROPEAN RUSSIA, WITH FULL ACCOUNTS OF THE SIBERIAN EXILES, THEIR 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.

BY
THOMAS W. KNOX.
AUTHOR OF “CAMP FIRE AND COTTON FIELD.”
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