Author: Marcus Lorenzo TaftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Siberia (Russia)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Strange Siberia Along the Trans-Siberian Railway
Author: Marcus Lorenzo TaftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Siberia (Russia)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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The Trans-Siberian Railway
Author: Deborah ManleyPublisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1908493305
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
No railway journey on Earth can equal the Trans-Siberian between Moscow and Vladivostock. It is not just its vast length and the great variety of the lands and climes through which it passes. It is not just its history as the line that linked the huge territories which are Russia together. It is a dream which calls countless travellers to the adventure of the longest railway in the world. From the birth aboard of Rudolf Nureyev to the childhood obsession with the railway of Lesley Blanch, to the weariness that eventually overcame Paul Theroux, to the excitement of the author's own journey, this revised and updated collection of travellers' accounts brings together emotions, descriptions and humour from a century of travel. This new edition of a classic anthology takes us through the tremendous achievement of the railway’s construction across harsh, unsettled lands through the earliest journeys of Western travellers and the trains on which they travelled, and their descriptions of fellow travellers, food, scenery, domestic arrangements, adventures on and off the train, convicts, revolution and war as the train carried them through a lonely, lovely landscape. The barrier of Lake Baikal was crossed by a British-built ice-breaker, put together on the lakeside until the link around the deep water and through the first tunnels of the route was completed. The railway played – and still plays – a huge part in holding this vast country together.
The Athenaeum
Author: The Christian Advocate
Author: Strange Siberia Along the Trans-Siberian Railway
Author: Marcus Lorenzo TaftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Siberia (Russia)
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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The National Geographic Magazine
Author: Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Beginning Apr. 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.
The Contemporary Review
Author: The Church School Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religious education
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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