Download or read book From Paris to Pekin written by Victor Meignan and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 1885-02-27 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embarrassed readers, who delight in books of travel, whether for the recreation or the useful information they afford, are not relieved of their difficulty when the title of the work, instead of indicating the nature of the subject, only presents an enigma for them to solve. How, for instance, is the reader to gauge the nature of the contents of “Voyage en Zigzag?” It might mean the itinerary of some crooked course among the Alps, or, perhaps, the log-book of a yacht chopping about the Channel, or the record of anything but a straightforward journey. Again, “By Land and Sea” might simply be the diary of a holiday trip from London to Paris, or a réchauffé of impressions of a “globe-trotter,” who went to see what everybody talked about that he also might talk about what he had seen. Then there are a host of others,vi such as “Travels West,” “The Land of the North Wind”—which one has to discover vaguely by ascertaining first where it does not blow,—“Loin de Paris,” “Dans les Nuages,” “On Blue Water;” all of which might be strictly applicable to the metropolitan area if the water were only just a little bluer. But “Voyage Autour de ma Femme” is still less intelligible.
Download or read book Peking to Paris written by Luigi Barzini and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book From Paris to Pekin Over Siberian Snows written by Victor Meignan and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pekin to Paris an Account of Prince Borghese s Journey Across Two Continents in a Motor Car written by Luigi Barzini and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... on the mountains We pass the Great Wall--The Italian marines leave us--At high speed over the Chinese country--Under the shadow of the Lianya-miao--An anxious moment--Mongolia comes in sight. Seen from the distance, the Great Wall, blending and fusing with the outlines of mountains like a prodigious architectural moulding on their crests and sides, does not look like the work of man: it is too vast; and yet what can be seen of it from any given point represents only about one-thousandth part of its extent! The thing seems a fantastic freak of the earth, thrown up by some great unknown natural force; the outcome of a cataclysm, not destructive, but creative. As we approached, the Great Wall became more and more completely hidden by a crowd of peaks; and we only saw it again at the last turning of the road, when we were about to enter under its heavy double gateways, covered by still available bastions. The road near to the top is now no more than a channel in the living rock, and it is increasingly steep and difficult. We had been walking for eight hours under an unbroken sheet of rain. We advanced slowly, painfully, and had to stop every minute to put stones out of the way, to make room for the wheels, to protect the car's fly-wheel from the projecting upward points on the roadway. All around us was gloomy and barren. We were coasting a deep ravine; suddenly, rising from its depth and resting on their isolators, two telegraph wires came in sight, crossing our road and the Great Wall. It was like the sight of familiar faces; these were friends to us, and would carry our news to the world outside. Poor ancient wall, the labour and pride of three royal dynasties and of some millions of men; it is not by the cannon alone that thou art...
Download or read book Peking to Paris written by Luigi Barzini and published by Open Court Publishing Company. This book was released on 1973 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal chronicle of a motor car race from Peking, China to Paris, France in 1907.
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Download or read book A Particular Account of the Emperor of China s Gardens Near Pekin written by Jean Denis Attiret and published by . This book was released on 1752 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book From Paris to Pekin Over Siberian Snows Classic Reprint written by Victor Meignan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from From Paris to Pekin Over Siberian Snows The reader will naturally discover from the title of this book the traveller's course, but he will at the same time, no doubt, desire to know something of the character of the book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book From Paris to Pekin Over Siberian Snows written by Victor Meignan and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Pekin to Paris An Account of Prince Borghese s Journey Across Two Continents in a Motor Car written by Luigi Barzini and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-03-03 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia commerce between Russia and China written by William Coxe and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Russian Discoveries between Asia and America have, for some time, engaged the attention of the curious; more especially since Dr. Robertson's admirable History of America has been in the hands of the public. In that valuable performance the elegant and ingenious author has communicated to the world, with an accuracy and judgement which so eminently distinguish all his writings, the most exact information at that time to be obtained, concerning those important discoveries. During my stay at Petersburg, my inquiries were particularly directed to this interesting subject, in order to learn if any new light had been thrown on an article of knowledge of such consequence to the history of mankind. For this purpose I endeavoured to collect the respective journals of the several voyages subsequent to the expedition of Beering and Tschirikoff in 1741, with which the celebrated Muller concludes his account of the first Russian navigations. During the course of my researches I was informed, that a treatise in the German language, published at Hamburg and Leipsic in 1776, contained a full and exact narrative of the Russian voyages, from 1745 to 1770 ...
