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New York: Eaton & Mains, 1911. First Edition. 246 pages. A railway travel journal illustrated throughout with black & white photographs. A lightly handled copy with some minor edge wear and a touch of tearing to the cloth at the bottom of the spine.
Strange Siberia: Along the Trans-Siberian Railway. A Journey from the Great Wall of China to the Skyscrapers of Manhattan by Taft, Marcus Lorenzo - 1912
by Taft, Marcus Lorenzo
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Strange Siberia: Along the Trans-Siberian Railway. A Journey from the Great Wall of China to the Skyscrapers of Manhattan
by Taft, Marcus Lorenzo
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New York/Cincinnati: Eaton & Mains/Jennings & Graham, 1912. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition (1911). 261pp, Preface to Second Edition dated January 1912, Foreword, To Go or Not To Go, The Russian Language, The Start, The Great Wall, Mukden, Across Manchuria, King-an and Genghis Khan, Siberia, Irkutsk, Jews in Russia, Jermak, Immigration and Exiles, Tomsk, Across the Steppes, Over the Urals, The Volga, Through Russia, Homeward Bound, 22 photo illustrations (including colored frontis), index. 16mo/17.5cm. Pictorial green cloth gilt, well rubbed at spine ends, short closed split at head of front joint, ex-library marks, otherwise clean, tight and very good. Marcus Lorenzo Taft (1850- ) seems to have been a missionary in China. This is apparently a record of one of his trips home. He notes in the Preface that six pages--on the Jews, Exiles and Religious Liberty--were excised by the Russian censors..
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- Date Published 1912
- Keywords Russia China Great Wall Trans-Siberian Railway Journey Travel & Description
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Strange Siberia: Along the Trans-Siberian Railway. A Journey from the Great Wall of China to the Sky-Scrapers of Manhattan
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Strange Siberia: Along the Trans-Siberian Railway. A journey from the Great Wall of China to the skyscrapers of Manhattan.
by TAFT, Marcus Lorenzo
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New York: Eaton & Mains, (1912).. Second edition. Inscibed by the author on front free endpaper. Hardcover. Very good in original publisher's cloth. A little light wear to spine ends. A tight, clean and otherwise unmarked copy. Coloured frontispiece + 252pp. + 21 full page plates,.
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