Across Asia on a bicycle
by William Lewis Sachtleben Thomas Gaskell Allen
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About This Book
In 1890, two American college graduates set out to travel around the world on a then-new invention, the modern bicycle. In 1893 they returned, have covered over 15,000 miles, at that time the "longest continuous land journey ever made around the world." This is their account their trip across Turkey, Persia, Turkestan and northern China. It described their adventures traveling along through regions few outsiders ever visited. Out of print over a century, this book is now back in print with additional notes and maps.
Chapters (11)
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- ACROSS ASIA ON A BICYCLE THE JOURNEY OF TWO AMERICAN STUDENTS FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO PEKING
- I BEYOND THE BOSPORUS
- II THE ASCENT OF MOUNT ARARAT
- III THROUGH PERSIA TO SAMARKAND
- IV THE JOURNEY FROM SAMARKAND TO KULDJA
- V OVER THE GOBI DESERT AND THROUGH THE WESTERN GATE OF THE GREAT WALL
- VI AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PRIME MINISTER OF CHINA
- Footnote
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