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Rough notes taken during some rapid journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes
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Letters & journal : during a journey in America, across the Pacific, Japan, China, and home by Mongolia in fourteen months ; and in Italy
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"The overland journey in America contains many colorful details from the period just as the transcontinental railroad was nearing completion, but was not yet available for the entire journey. Wells Fargo's last season of stagecoach service from Salt lake City to Austin, Nevada is described. After dining about the town in San Francisco, Charteris suddenly insists on seeing Yosemite ... Charteris [makes] it to both Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove ... In his description of his visit, we meet one of Yosemite's earliest caretakers at the very beginning of the tourist period. In Japan, he visits temples, Yokohama, and Tokyo. In China he travels in the northern region to Irkustk and then across Mongolia on an expedition finding his way to a rail and a trip to Italy before home."--Bookseller's blurb.
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