Chinese Central Asia

Abstract

THERE are few, if any, men who have travelled so extensively throughout the length and breadth of Asia as Dr. Lansdell, and in the work before us he has given an interesting account of his last great journey of 50,000 miles, which occupied “two years and seven months, of which 525 were travelling, and 425 were stationary days. The regions visited comprised five of the kingdoms of Europe, four of Africa, and every kingdom of Asia. The methods of travel were 18,000 miles by railway, 25,000 by water, and 7,000 by driving and riding on the backs of horses, camels, donkeys, yaks, elephants, mules, and men.” Chinese Central Asia: a Ride to Little Tibet. By Henry Lansdell, Author of “Through Siberia,” “Russian Central Asia,” “Through Central Asia,” &c. Two Vols. (London: Sampson Low, 1893.)