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Across Asia on a Bicycle (Esprios Classics): with William Lewis Sachtleben

Across Asia on a Bicycle (Esprios Classics): with William Lewis Sachtleben

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Publisher Price: $27.99

ISBN10: 100689375X
ISBN13: 9781006893759
Publisher: Blurb
Published: Aug 23 2024
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On a morning early in April the little steamer conveying us across from Stamboul touched the wharf at Haider Pasha. Amid the rabble of Greeks, Armenians, Turks, and Italians we trundled our bicycles across the gang-plank, which for us was the threshold of Asia, the beginning of an inland journey of seven thousand miles from the Bosporus to the Pacific. Through the morning fog which enveloped the shipping in the Golden Horn, the stars and stripes at a single masthead were waving farewell to two American students fresh from college who had nerved themselves for nearly two years of separation from the comforts of western civilization.

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