Across Asia on a Bicycle: The Journey of Two American Students from Constantinople to Peking

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 910 EAN: 9781587420207 ISBN: 1587420201 Label: Inkling Books Manufacturer: Inkling Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 168 Publication Date: 2003-07-15 Publisher: Inkling Books Studio: Inkling Books
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Editorial Reviews: In 1890, two American college graduates set out to travel around the world on a then-new invention, the modern bicycle. In 1893 they returned, have covered over 15,000 miles, at that time the "longest continuous land journey ever made around the world." This is their account their trip across Turkey, Persia, Turkestan and northern China. It described their adventures traveling along through regions few outsiders ever visited. Out of print over a century, this book is now back in print with additional notes and maps.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: An Amazing Tale of Fortitude Comment: What an incredible story these young men had to tell! The book picks up with the Asia part of their journey and while reading their accounts of the people and places they saw I was transported back to a time when all travel was "adventure" travel. Included is the account of their insane-by-today's-standards summit of Mt Ararat. This book is for cyclists and non-cyclists alike and is compelling reading - giving a world view and pre-World War perspective on the people of the middle and far east. These young men from America were the first to demonstrate the "safety" bicycle to the Asian people and may very well have sparked the common use of bicycles throughout the world. Customer Rating: Summary: Biking in foreign lands long ago. Comment: A fast moving narrative, interesting and full of twists of fate. Two young men take on the world in bygone times, when nations allowed such things. Riders of today will wonder at the challenge - but the same lure that drives cross-country cycling today is certainly in these pages. Customer Rating: Summary: Less expensive, better version from another publisher Comment: Another publisher has a much better done edition of this book at roughly half this price. It's newly typeset rather than a facsimile and contains some additional material about their journey. Across Asia on a Bicycle: The Journey of Two American Students from Constantinople to Peking More Reviews