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Title: Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar
Life

Author: Thomas Wallace Knox

Release Date: October 20, 2004 [eBook #13806]

Language: English

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OVERLAND THROUGH ASIA: PICTURES OF SIBERIAN, CHINESE, AND TARTAR LIFE

Travels and Adventures in Kamchatka, Siberia, China, Mongolia, Chinese
Tartary, and European Russia, with Full Accounts of the Siberian Exiles,
Their Treatment, Condition, and Mode of Life; a Description of the
Amoor River, and the Siberian Shores of the Frozen Ocean; with an
Appropriate Map, and Nearly 200 Illustrations

by

THOMAS W. KNOX.

Author of _Camp Fire And Cotton Field_

1871

[Illustration: FRONTISPIECE, THE AUTHOR IN SIBERIAN COSTUME]

PREFACE.

Fourteen years ago Major Perry McD. Collins traversed Northern Asia,
and wrote an account, of his journey, entitled "A Voyage Down the
Amoor." With the exception of that volume no other work on this little
known region has appeared from the pen of an American writer. In view
of this fact, the author of "Overland Through Asia" indulges the hope
that his book will not be considered a superfluous addition to the
literature of his country.

The journey herein recorded was undertaken partly as a pleasure trip,
p