Michie, Alexander

Estimate

300 - 500 GBP

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Description

The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg, through the Deserts and Steppes of Mongolia, Tartary, &c. London: John Murray, 1864
paper

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (220 x 140mm.), xii, [ii], 402pp., [ii pp. adverts], 2 folding maps, 11 plates, original green cloth, dark red endpapers, slipcase

Provenance

Arthur William Crosse, armorial bookplate

Catalogue Note

"I am not aware that any continuous account of the whole journey between the capitals of China and Russia has appeared in the English language for nearly a century and a half" (preface).

In 1863, Michie took the opportunity of a brief return to England to travel via the unusual route overland to Europe through North China, Chinese Mongolia and Siberia. He includes here a concluding chapter on a comparison between Russia and China, noting "one cannot travel for four months through the two largest empires in the world, without reflecting on the analogies and contrasts which they mutually present..."