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9781587420207
Between 1890 and 1893 two young men circled the world on the new modern bicycle, covering 15,000 miles in what was then the "longest continuous land journey ever made around the world." This is their account of the 7,000 mile trip across central Asia and through regions rarely visited by outsiders. They also describe their experience as the first Americans to climb Mount Ararat in Turkey.Allen, Thomas Gaskell, Jr. is the author of 'Across Asia on a Bicycle The Journey of Two American Students from Constantinople to Peking', published 2002 under ISBN 9781587420207 and ISBN 1587420201.
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