In the 1860s Alexander Michie travelled from Shanghai to Tientsin and Peking, then north through Kalgan, across the Mongolian steppe and the Gobi to the Russian frontier, and on through Siberia to St. Petersburg. He writes plainly about the people he met along the way, from Chinese officials and Mongol herders to lamas and Russian townsfolk, and corrects many myths about Siberia.
A rare continuous English account of the whole overland route between the capitals of China and Russia. Download the free EPUB.