China caravans
Subtitle: an American adventurer in old China : including an exploration of the royal tombs of Xian and the ill-fated restoration of the last Manchu emperor to the Dragon Throne
By: Robert Easton ; introduction by Audrey Topping.
Contributors: Schroder, Fred Meyer.
Publisher: Capra Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
Subjects: Schroder, Fred Meyer; China -- Description and travel; Mongolia -- Description and travel
Description: An engrossing account of China just before the Bamboo Curtain came down, concealing China from Western eyes for a generation. This is the true story of Fred Schroder, American trouble-shooter and camel caravanner whose harrowing travels through Mongolia, Siberia, Tibet and China's Far West, make for rich history and high adventure. He has a shoot-out with a nomad chieftain, encounters living gods, gets involved in two revolutions and one coup d'etat, and explores the astounding Royal Tombs at Xian-- now called the greatest archaelogical discovery of our time. Easton writes in the first person, to capture the voice and idiom of the indomitable Schroder -- Back cover.
Notes: Fred Meyer Schroder's adventures as told to Robert Easton.
Rev. ed. of: Guns, gold, and caravans. 3. Caravans in China and Mongolia.