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FROM PARIS TO PEKIN OVER
SIBERIAN SNOWS.
THE MONASTERY OF TROITSA.
FROM PARIS TO PEKIN
OVER SIBERIAN SNOWS.
A NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY BY SLEDGE OVER THE SNOWS OF EUROPEAN
RUSSIA AND SIBERIA, BY CARAVAN THROUGH MONGOLIA,
ACROSS THE GOBI DESERT AND THE GREAT WALL,
AND BY MULE PALANQUIN THROUGH
CHINA TO PEKIN.
BY
VICTOR MEIGNAN,
EDITED FROM THE FRENCH BY
WILLIAM CONN.
With supplementary notes not contained in the original edition.
WITH A MAP AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS FROM
SKETCHES BY THE AUTHOR AND OTHERS.
LONDON:
W. SWAN SONNENSCHEIN AND CO.,
PATERNOSTER SQUARE.
1885.
Printed by Hazell, Watson, & Viney, Limited, London and Aylesbury.
PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION.
Embarrassed readers, who delight in booksof travel, whether for the recreation or theuseful information they afford, are not relievedof their difficulty when the title of the work,instead of indicating the nature of the subject,only presents an enigma for them to solve.How, for instance, is the reader to gaugethe nature of the contents of “Voyage enZigzag?” It might mean the itinerary ofsome crooked course among the Alps, or,perhaps, the log-book of a yacht choppingabout the Channel, or the record of anythingbut a straightforward journey. Again, “ByLand and Sea” might simply be the diaryof a holiday trip from London to Paris, or aréchauffé of impressions of a “globe-trotter,”who went to see what everybody talkedabout that he also might talk about what hehad seen. Then there are a host of others,visuch as “Travels West,” “The Land