Pekin to Paris (Classic Reprint): An Account of Prince Borghese's Journey Across Two Continents in a Motor-Car: An Account of Prince Borghese's ... Continents in a Motor-Car (Classic Reprint) - Paperback

Excerpt from Pekin to Paris: An Account of Prince Borghese's Journey Across Two Continents in a Motor-Car The Distant Mountain - A Panorama of Devastation - The City in the Desert - A Mysterious Motor-car - Chasing Antelopes - Urga; At the Rusky-Kitensky Bank - A Strange Pilgrimage - A Chinese Governor on our Motor-car - Departure from Urga - We Sink into a Bog - A Disastrous Descent; The Third Accident - Among Mongolians and Buriats - A Race through the Night - Across the Iro - Our First wade - Kiakhta; We are Granted Official Protection - Siberian Hospitality - The Motor-car and the Tea Trade - Towards Novi-Selengisk - Crossing the Selenga - A Rising Country - The Train; Along the Selenga - A Rebellious Ascent - In the Mud - The Abandoned Road - The Bolshaia Rieka River - Missowaja - A Useless Attempt - Awaiting a Reply - An Extraordinary Permit; By Motor-Journey on the Railway-line - The "16th Sorting Station" - The Old Bridge - A Collapse - Our Car Overturned - The Rescue - Tankoy; Across the Baikal - On the Banks of the Angara - Irkutsk - A Country Covered with Flowers - Over the Rivers - The Convicts - Zima - The Motor-car and the Telega - The Old Post-Station - Nijni-Udinsk - Difficulties with the Telegraph; On the Taiga - Kansk - The Chained Wheel - Krasnojarsk - By The Power of Two Documents - Crossing the Kebiptshug - Atschinsk - We Founder; On the Way to - "Marinsk Where is the Verst?" - In the Mud - Our Friends the Mujiks - Jerks and Joltings - Discouragebient - The "Big Beast" - We Run Around in the Wood - Tomsk - Towards Kolywan - The Obi and its Bogs - Kolywan 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