From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People

CONTENTS

PART I

I. Across Europe—	PAGE
Berlin to Constantinople	8
Constantinople	13
The Church of the Divine Wisdom	15
The Bazaars of Stambul	20

II. Constantinople to Teheran(1905)—
The Black Sea	26
Trebizond to Teheran	29

III. Through the Caucasus, Persia, and Mesopotamia(1885-6)—
St. Petersburg to Baku	34
Across Persia	37
Arabia	40
Baghdad to Teheran	42

IV. The Persian Desert(1906)—
Across the Kevir	46
The Oasis of Tebbes	51

V. On the Kirghiz Steppe(1893-5)—
Into Asia from Orenburg	55
Samarcand and Bukhara	59
The Pamir	62
"The Father of Ice-Mountains	66
A Kirghiz Gymkhana	69

VI. From Persia to India (1906)—
Tebbes to Seistan	72
A Baluchi Raid	75
Scorpions	80
The Indus	82
Kashmir and Ladak	87

VII. Eastern Turkestan (1895)—
The Takla-makan Desert	89
Across a Sea of Sand	90
The End of the Caravan	93
Water at Last	97

VIII. The Desert Waterway (1899)—
Down the Yarkand River	102
The Tarim	105
The Wandering Lake	107
Wild Camels	109

IX. In the Forbidden Land (1901-2, 1906-8)—
The Plateau of Tibet	111
Attempt to reach Lhasa	Clyx.com