Identifier: ridetoindiaacros00dewirich (find matches)
Title: A ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: De Windt, Harry, 1856-1933
Subjects: India -- Description and travel Iran -- Description and travel Balochistan (Pakistan) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall, limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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FROM PEKIN TO CALAIS BY LAND. By II. De WINDT. With numerous Illustrations by C. E. Fripp, from Sketches by the Author.Demy 8vo. 20s. From the SATURDAY REVIEW. The man must, indeed, have a dull, incurious eye, who, after the perusal of such a title-pageas this book bears, is content to read no more. It is impossible not to feel more than a mere inquisi-tiveness, to see how the intrepid and adventurous travellers bore their perilous journey on over suchbarren, and generally unknown, tracts. Whether or not they were repaid for their act of daring, thereader will, at any rate, be deeply grateful to them for much valuable information, and for therectification of many errors in which the public have hitherto been content to dwell with com-placent content. . . . Mr. de Windt says that his book will not have been written in vain if itspages deter other travellers from following his example. But, although we are far from undervaluinghis great hardships and difficulties, we cannot but rejoice

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