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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.

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Title: The Russian road to China

Author: Jr. Lindon Bates

Release date: October 19, 2025 [eBook #77082]

Language: English

Original publication: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910

Credits: Alan, deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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THE RUSSIAN ROAD TO CHINA

A MAID OF OLD MUSCOVY

(From a painting by Venuga)

THE RUSSIAN ROAD
TO CHINA

BY

LINDON BATES, Jr.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

1910

COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY LINDON BATES, JR.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published May 1910