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| Travels on horseback in Mantchu Tartary / FLEMING George, 1863 | |||||||||
Travels on horseback in Mantchu Tartary — being a summer’s ride beyond the Great Wall
of China. With a map and numerous illustrations.
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FLEMING George
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« Partly to while away the tedium and monotony of a long sea voyage from China to England, and partly to redeem a promise made before leaving that country, the following narrative of a somewhat novel ride through one of the most distant regions of the great Chinese empire was written for publication. Much as its southern portion has been explored and described, little in reality is known regarding the far north, more especially of those hitherto inaccessible districts which border on, or lie beyond, that marvellous monument of human industry — the Great Wall, in its course along the eastern margin of Old China.[…] » Présentation de l’éditeur (1863)
: carnet de voyage , cavalière , Chine , ferrure , hippophagie , mule , Muraille de Chine , poney tartare , récit , vétérinaire