Bates, L: Russian Road to China (Classic Reprint)

Anglický jazyk

Bates, L: Russian Road to China (Classic Reprint)

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Formát: Paperback
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781332588688

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O knihe

Excerpt from The Russian Road to China

N ancient way leads across northern Asia to the Chinese borderland. The steel of the great Siberian Railroad harnesses now the stretch which mounts the Urals, pierces the steppes, winds through the Altai foothills, and by cyclopean cuts and tun nels girdles Lake Baikal. From Verhneudinsk south ward, it has remained as an ancient post-road leading through the trans-baikal highlands to the frontier garrison town of Kiahta. Over the Mon golian border at Maimachen, it has narrowed into a camel-trail threading the barren hills to the encampment of the Tatar hordes at holy Urga. Thence it strikes across the sandy wastes of Gobi, and passes the ramparts of the Great Wall of China, on its way toward Peking and the Pacific. Through five centuries this road has been build ing. Cossacks blazed its way; musketoon-armed Strelitz, adventuring traders, convicts condemned for sins or sincerity, land-seeking peasants, exiled dissenters, voyaging Officials all have trampled it.

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