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In 1890, two American students set off from New York on a bicycle ride around the world. They sailed for Liverpool on June 23, 1890. After following many of the beaten lines of travel in the British Isles they arrived in London, where they formed their plans for traveling across Europe, Asia, and America. The most dangerous regions to be traversed in such a journey, they were told, were western China, the Desert of Gobi, and central China. Never since the days of Marco Polo had a European traveler succeeded in crossing the Chinese empire from the west to Peking. Just three years after setting off they rolled back into New York having "put a girdle round the earth. " They had covered 15,044 miles on the wheel, the longest continuous land journey ever made around the world. Their volume Across Asia on a Bicycle, The Journey of Two American Students From Constantinople to Peking, published in 1894, is made up of a series of sketches describing the most interesting part of the journey - their ride across Asia.
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Allen and Sachtleben graduated from Washington University in June 1890, sailed to Liverpool, and began a 15,000 mile bicycle journey to Peking. They had conceived of the idea during their senior year as "a practical finish to a theoretical education" in liberal arts. Their account really begins in Asia Minor as they cycle on through Persia and Turkestan, with detours to Merv, Bokhara and Samarkand. They peddled across the vast tract of the Gobi Desert to Peking, where they were received by Li-Hung-Chang, the Prime Minister of China.
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- PublisherDodo Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 140999239X
- ISBN 13 9781409992394
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages184
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