About This Book
The narrative follows the overland route from European Russia across the Urals and Siberia to China's frontier, interweaving historical accounts of early explorers and Cossack advance with contemporary travel reportage. It describes construction and impact of the great Siberian railway, snapshots of frontier towns and lake regions, journeys by sledge through Transbaikalia, and encounters with nomadic camps, Buddhist lamaseries, and Chinese border towns. Throughout it balances geography, local types and customs, and political history to portray the making of a transcontinental corridor and the cultural and economic changes it brings to peoples and landscapes along the road.
About the Author
You May Also Like
6 picks
"1683-1920" / The Fourteen Points and What Became of Them—Foreign Propaganda in the Public Schools—Rewriting the History of the United States—The Espionage Act and How It Worked—"Illegal and Indefensible Blockade" of the Central Powers—1,000,000 Victims of Starvation—Our Debt to France and to Germany—The War Vote in Congress—Truth About the Belgian Atrocities—Our Treaty with Germany and How Observed—The Alien Property Custodianship—Secret Will of Cecil Rhodes—Racial Strains in American Life—Germantown Settlement of 1683 and a Thousand Other Topics
by Frederick Franklin Schrader
"1812"
by Vasilïĭ Vasilʹevich Vereshchagin
"Barbarous Soviet Russia"
by Isaac McBride
"Brother Bosch", an Airman's Escape from Germany
by Gerald Featherstone Knight
"Monsieur Henri": A Foot-Note to French History
by Louise Imogen Guiney
"My country, 'tis of thee!" / Or, the United States of America; past, present and future. A philosophic view of American history and of our present status, to be seen in the Columbian exhibition.
by Willis Fletcher Johnson