An American correspondent travels with a telegraph company planning a line across northern Asia, then keeps going overland. He sails the Amoor, crosses Siberia by sledge and tarantass, visits Kiakhta and Mongolia and reaches Peking, describing exiles, merchants, Cossacks, Tartar camps and Chinese theatre along the way.
An entertaining early American look at Russian Asia and China, for armchair travellers and historians of Siberia. Download the free EPUB.