From Peking to PetersburgE. Arnold, 1899 - 300 pàgines |
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Pàgina 29
... original Great Wall that runs on the hill - tops north of Kalgan . Therefore , for two days we were not objects of curiosity , save in a moderate degree , an excursion so far being in the programme of most foreigners who visit Peking ...
... original Great Wall that runs on the hill - tops north of Kalgan . Therefore , for two days we were not objects of curiosity , save in a moderate degree , an excursion so far being in the programme of most foreigners who visit Peking ...
Pàgina 31
... original design . The inn lets to the traveller stable accommodation and a place where he may lay his bedding , and it provides him with the use of a kitchen and of a well . That is all in theory . The traveller must bring , and often ...
... original design . The inn lets to the traveller stable accommodation and a place where he may lay his bedding , and it provides him with the use of a kitchen and of a well . That is all in theory . The traveller must bring , and often ...
Pàgina 84
... is all sandy , and some of it is so secluded and arid that tradition has fixed it as the original habitat of the wild camel . But some part of Gobi is a fairly pastoral country , and very little of it is quite 84 FROM ̧PEKING TO PETERSBURG.
... is all sandy , and some of it is so secluded and arid that tradition has fixed it as the original habitat of the wild camel . But some part of Gobi is a fairly pastoral country , and very little of it is quite 84 FROM ̧PEKING TO PETERSBURG.
Pàgina 92
... original Great Wall - more loosely built than the inner Great Wall , with which tourists are familiar . Beyond that wall are the rolling grass plains of Mongolia , stretching before the eye with no limit save the horizon , a sea of ...
... original Great Wall - more loosely built than the inner Great Wall , with which tourists are familiar . Beyond that wall are the rolling grass plains of Mongolia , stretching before the eye with no limit save the horizon , a sea of ...
Pàgina 123
... original merchant adventurers who settled there to engage in the Russo - Chinese trade , and they have been continued to the present day . Now there are really three separate towns . There is Kiakhta proper , the site of the Russian ...
... original merchant adventurers who settled there to engage in the Russo - Chinese trade , and they have been continued to the present day . Now there are really three separate towns . There is Kiakhta proper , the site of the Russian ...
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