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A land journey from Asia to Europe,

being an account of a camel and sledge journey from Canton to St Petersburg through the plains of Mongolia and Siberia.

Stock Code 100741

London, Sampson Low, 1871

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Scarce. Entertaining narrative of a journey across Mongolia and Siberia, mostly by sled. Hong Kong to St. Petersburg via Canton, Shanghai, Peking, Mongolia, Irkutsk, Lake Baikal, etc. Not listed in Cordier although the author's The route from Tientsin to Kiachta was in the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society for 1870 and is listed.

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First edition. 8vo, xv, 336 pp., 16 pages ads dated September 1870 at end, wood-engraved frontispiece and 2 folding maps, original brown cloth gilt, covers decorated in black, a fine copy.

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A land journey from Asia to Europe,

WHYTE, William Athenry.

Stock code: 100741

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