Claudius Bombarnac, special correspondent of the Paris paper The Twentieth Century, boards the newly built railway across Central Asia hunting for stories among his fellow passengers. He finds a stowaway Romanian hidden in a packing case, a mandarin’s coffin, a pompous German baron, a pair of travelling actors and plenty of trouble on the long run toward China.
A light-hearted railway adventure from Verne’s later years, full of comic types and Central Asian scenery. Download the free EPUB.