Across Asia on a Bicycle: (1894) - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 384571171X ISBN 13 : 9783845711713

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This volume is made up of a series of sketches describing the most interesting part of a bicycle journey around the world, our ride across A sia. We were actuated by no desire to make a record in bicycle travel, althoiigh we covered 15,044 miles on the wheel, the longest continuous land journey ever made around the world. The day after we were graduated at Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., we left for New York. Thence we sailed for Liverpool on June 23, 1890. Just three years afterward, lacking twenty days, we rolled into New York on our wheels, having put a girdle round the earth. Our bicycling experience began at Liverpool. After following many of the beaten lines of travel in the British I sles we arrived in London, where we formed our plans for traveling across Europe, A sia, and A merica. The most dangerous regions to be traversed in such a journey, we were told, were western China, the Desert of Gobi, and central China. Never since the days of Marco Polo had a European traveler succeeded in crossing the Chinese empire from the west to Peking. Crossing the Channel, we rode through Normandy to Paris, across the lowlands of western France to Bordeaux, eastward over the Lesser A lps to Marseilles, and along the Riviera into I taly. After visiting every important city on the peninsula, we left Italy at Brindisi on the last day of 1890 for Corfu, in Greece.
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Biographie de l'auteur

Allen and Sachtleben graduated from Washington University in June 1890, sailed to Liverpool, and began a 15,000 mile bicycle journey to Peking. They had conceived of the idea during their senior year as "a practical finish to a theoretical education" in liberal arts. Their account really begins in Asia Minor as they cycle on through Persia and Turkestan, with detours to Merv, Bokhara and Samarkand. They peddled across the vast tract of the Gobi Desert to Peking, where they were received by Li-Hung-Chang, the Prime Minister of China.

Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 384571171X
• ISBN 13: 9783845711713
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible