Across Thibet Volume 1; being a translation of "De Paris au Tonkin à travers le Tibet inconnu" - Softcover

Bonvalot, Gabriel

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ISBN 10: 1154132935 ISBN 13: 9781154132939

Verlag: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...temperature as the sun appears above the horizon. We are at present very insufficiently protected against the cold, and although we are walking, we shiver from head to foot, while, for my own part, I do not know what to do with my hands, which are so numbed that I cannot get them warm. We have no choice but to wait till the sun has got up, when a fresh trouble arises. We are in a desert the sand of which is in many places covered with a layer of salt, aud the refraction is so great that we are constantly being led astray by the mirages, while we are dazzled, blinded, and halfroasted by the sun into the bargain. It seems as if all the sun's rays were converging upon us, and as if there were no choice but to let ourselves be thoroughly baked. Our horses do not seem to be so much affected by the heat as we are, and I really believe that they can smell their stable, though still more than thirty miles off. There is no road, and we have to guide ourselves by the compass; but the instinct of our horses is the best guide, and we speed along at such a rate that a courier sent forward by Bonvalot has scarcely time to hand us a letter. It arrives rather late, for we are already in the oasis, and before long we see a rivulet, some gorse, then some tamarisks, several small poplars, aud, last of all, Rachmed, going off at a great pace after " those wretched hares." In a few minutes we are in the camp, which has the aspect of a small town, with people coming and going in all directions, buying and selling, gossiping, and nailing down boxes, while in the centre is our little tent, beneath Pojpuhi8 diversifolia. THE RETURN TO TCHARKALIK. 109 which Bonvalot, with his legs crossed Turkish fashion, is enjoying a meal of sparrows, cooked on a skewer with slices of sh...

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• Verlag: RareBooksClub.com
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1154132935
• ISBN 13: 9781154132939
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 60