A French traveller sets out in winter by rail and then by sledge across European Russia and Siberia, through Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Perm and Ekaterinburg, surviving a perilous night on the steppe of Omsk. He goes on by caravan across Mongolia and the Gobi Desert, through the Great Wall, and by mule palanquin to Peking.
A hardy overland journey from the age before the Trans-Siberian Railway. Download the free EPUB.