Bei diesem Buch, das erstmalig 1894 erschienen ist, handelt es sich um die Erzählung der Reise zweier amerikanischer Studenten der Wahingon University, die sich auf den Weg gemacht haben, den asiatischen Kontinent mit dem Fahrrad zu entdecken. Dabei durchquerten sie auf 15.000 Meilen unter anderem Persien und die Gebirgsregion Turkestan sowie die Wüste Gobi auf dem Weg nach Peking. Es handelt sich hierbei um eine englischsprachige Ausgabe.

This volume is made up of a series of sketches describing the most interesting part of a bicycle journey around the world, --our ride across Asia. We were actuated by no desire to make a "record" in bicycle travel, although we covered 15,044 miles on the wheel, the longest continuous land journey ever made around the world.

Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody, a book that will keep saying what it has to say for years.

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.

Across Asia on a Bicycle The Journey of Two American Students from Constantinople to Peking Thomas Gaskell Allen Beginning in June, 1890, two young American students made a bicycle journey around the world--so far as they could on land--and were back in New York, whence they had sailed for Liverpool to begin their wheeling in just under three years. They regard their journey through Western China and the Desert of Gobi as the most interesting and most dangerous parts of their travels. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.