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For questions please e-mail us: info@voyager-press.comPhone toll-free 1-888-656-2006 Author: GRANT, C. M. Title: Journey from Pekin to St. Petersburg, Across the Desert of Gobi. Publisher: London: Royal Geographical Society, 1863. Notes: Interesting descriptions of China's Great Wall, the Kwankow Pass, Hulayén, Tatumah, Suen-ho-Fo, the most important commercial town in the north of China, Chang-Kia-Kow; a visit to the Taou-tai; the extensive silver and copper mines in Shiwan-ze; Kalgan; Taban; Gobi, Gashong; Kiachta and Lake Baikal; Irkutsk, Tobolsk, Kasan and St. Petersburg. Excerpt from the text: "..I made application for a passport for Mongolia. It was at first refused, on the ground that the Mongols were not all thoroughly subdued. However I was prepared to take all risks on myself, and at the end of three weeks, I was provided at Pekin with a Chinese passport, bearing the Imperial 'chop,' and an English passport for Russia... I started from Pekin. Soon after passing the outer fortifications a most violent dust-storm arose, which heightened in its fury so suddenly that, before I had proceeded a mile from the City-Wall, I found that the baggage mules were unable to contend with it... The ravages of the storm were perceptible in every direction: large trees were uprooted, hedges thrown down, and houses unroofed..."End Excerpt. The Gobi is a great stony desert of North central Asia, extending across South East Mongolia and Northern China from the Da Hinggan (Great Khingan) Mountains to the Tian Shan; one of the world's largest deserts. The Gobi, located on a plateau consists of a series of shallow alkaline basins; the western portion of the desert is entirely sandy. Nearly all the region's soil has been removed by the prevailing northwesterly winds and deposited in North central China as loess; fierce sand and wind storms are common. The Gobi's grassy fringe supports a small population of nomadic Mongolian tribes engaged in sheepherding and goatherding. The Gobi is crossed by a highway and by the Trans-Mongolian RR, which links Ulaanbaatar with Jining, China. Many paleontological finds, including early mammals and dinosaur eggs, have been made in the Gobi. Prehistoric stone implements, some c.100,000 years old, have also been excavated. For More CENTRAL CHINA items click here For More RUSSIA items click here Condition: 11 pages. Paper is in Excellent Condition. This is the original account printed in the 1800's, and NOT a reprint. These original text pages have been attractively bound in booklet style in modern blue paper covers with label.
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