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Roughing It In Siberia With Some Account Of The Trans Siberian Railway And The Gold Mining Industry Of Asiatic Russia
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Author : Robert L. Jefferson
language : en
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Release Date : 1897
Roughing It In Siberia With Some Account Of The Trans Siberian Railway And The Gold Mining Industry Of Asiatic Russia written by Robert L. Jefferson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Siberia (Russia) categories.
Roughing It In Siberia
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Author : Robert L. Jefferson
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
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The short winter day was waning when the Chelabinsk train, seven days out of Moscow, sluggishly passed the big stone erected in a defile in the centre of the Ural mountain range, and which marked the geographical boundary of Europe and Asia. Since yesterday, when we had left the level plains of Eastern Europe for the uplands of the Urals, the pace had been tantalizingly miserable. Some people say that man can get accustomed to anything, but it absorbs an enormous amount of patience in getting accustomed to Russian railway travelling; the further eastward one goes, the slower becomes the pace, the longer the stoppages at insignificant stations, and the greater the demonstration—beating of tin cans, blowing of whistles, and ringing of bells—which accompanies each arrival and departure. But now, with Europe behind, the whole wealth of Asia before one, combined with the uncertainty of the unknown, and which was backed up by popular prejudice and travellers’ romantic tales, the thinking man has food for reflection, and much of it. We were rounding curves, sharp ones too, on a badly ballasted track, that caused the heavy Russian cars to oscillate alarmingly, notwithstanding the crawl at which we were proceeding. The views to be obtained from the carriage windows were superb, in spite of the wintry aspect which everything bore. It was January—time of deep snow, frozen rivers, and biting atmosphere—everything around (except the interior of the car) was wintry to the last degree. Snow piled up in> great drifts on the sharp spurs of the mountain-side; the branches of the melancholy birches bowing down with the weight of their snowy covering; icicles hanging in the crevices of the rocks, where, in summer, splashed a mountain cascade. Deep below us, in a narrow gorge, lay the tortuous course of a fast-flowing river, but now frozen to its very bed, and its surface cut and streaked by the runners of many sledges. Now and again we could catch a glimpse of some woodman’s hut perched up on the hillside—a veritable house of snow, and as cold and bleak-looking as any one could think to see. Hurtling violently around the corner, we pass a level-crossing, where stands a caravan of patient horses waiting to cross, with white frost hard on their shaggy coats, and icicles from their eyes and nostrils; a sheepskin-clad moujik, with fur hat over eyes and ears, and feet encased in huge felt boots, complacently puffing at a stunted papiros. Here, too, an old woman comes out to flag the train—a woman who looks, from the amount of heavy clothing she wears, more like an animated beer barrel than a human being, and on whose stolid visage is nothing except an expression of tremendous importance at the position she occupies in the service of His Imperial Majesty Czar Nicholas the Second. Darkness fell; my three companions were asleep. The conductor came and inserted in glass boxes at each end of the long car two diminutive candle-ends, the wicks of which he lighted laboriously. He looked at the thermometer to see how far off roasting we were, and then, after gazing superciliously around, left us. The heat in the car was fearful, beads of perspiration stood out on the faces of my sleeping companions, and yet this is only the Russian way of doing things. The Réaumur glass outside showed thirty-six degrees below freezing-point; inside, the heat was sufficient to almost roast one. And thus for seven days had we sat and lounged, talked and read, and stewed gradually, with no greater diversion than the rush for the buffet at each station, an occasional row with some blustering traveller who would hustle us for places, or the periodical breaking down of the locomotive, which event occurred about once a day on an average.
Roughing It In Siberia
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Author : Robert L. Jefferson
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Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-10-17
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Excerpt from Roughing It in Siberia: With Some Account of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and the Gold-Mining Industry of Asiatic Russia We were rounding curves, sharp ones too, on a badly ballasted track, that caused the heavy Russian cars to oscillate alarmingly, notwithstanding the crawl at which we were proceeding. The views to be obtained from the carriage windows were superb, in spite Of the wintry aspect which everything bore. It was January - time of deep snow, frozen rivers, and biting atmosphere - everything around (except the interior of the car) was wintry to the last degree. Snow piled up in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Roughing It In Siberia
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Author : Robert L. Jefferson
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Release Date : 1897
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Roughing It In Siberia
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Author : Robert L. Jefferson
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Roughing It In Siberia With Some Account Of The Trans Siberian Railway And The Gold Mining Industry Of Asiatic Russia
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Author : Jefferson L
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Author : Robert L. Jefferson
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The Publishers Circular And Booksellers Record Of British And Foreign Literature
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Author : Robert L. Jefferson
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Roughing It In Siberia With Some Account Of The Trans Siberian Railway And The Gold Mining Industry Of Asiatic Russia
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Author : Robert L Jefferson
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