Across Asia on a Bicycle
Author: first_name: Thomas Gaskell
last_name: Allen
first_name: William Lewis
last_name: Sachtleben
Language: English
Year: 1894

In 1890, two Americans newly graduated from college 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 of their trip across Turkey, Persia, Turkestan and northern China. It described their adventures traveling along through regions few outsiders ever visited. And include climbing Mount Ararat (they didn't find an