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Two Russian revolutionaries conspire to kidnap a Russian intelligence official while aboard the Peterson-Cannes Express.
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The collection consists of letters, including 22 autograph letters, from 1902 to 1913, from Muir to his daughter, Helen Muir Funk. There is also correspondence with Enos Abijah Mills, J. Marshall Watkins, and the John Muir Association, and photocopies of Muir's Thousand mile journey (mssFAC 624).
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The collection consists of letters, including 22 autograph letters, from 1902 to 1913, from Muir to his daughter, Helen Muir Funk. There is also correspondence with Enos Abijah Mills, J. Marshall Watkins, and the John Muir Association, and photocopies of Muir's Thousand mile journey (FAC 624).
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Dr. Alex Cousins, a famous American cancer specialist, is secretly dispatched to Moscow by the President of the United States. His mission: to prolong the life of Viktor Dimitrov, Secretary General of the Politburo, who is dying of leukemia. Once Dimitrov's condition has improved, the wily old politican encourages the doctor to leave Russia via the spectacular Trans-Siberian Express - across two continents, then to Japan and over the Pacific. His compartment is a foreign and fabulous world, and into it comes Anna Petrovna, a magnificent Russian beauty who fascinates Alex from their first meeting. But as the miles slip by, this journey becomes a living nightmare. The conspiracy which he had only suspected back at Dimitrov's dacha outside Moscow has followed Cousins onto the train. Trapped, incessantly watched by a cadre of KGB agents, he has no one to turn to but his fellow passengers, who twisted reasons for riding the Trans-Siberian Express become tragically enmeshed with his own desperate flight--Adapted from dust jacket flaps.
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In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, Asia has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed, China has risen, India booms, Burma slowly smothers, and Vietnam prospers despite the havoc unleashed upon it the last time Theroux passed through. He witnesses all this and more in a 25,000 mile journey, travelling as the locals do, by train, car, bus, and foot, providing his penetrating observations on the changes these countries have undergone.--From publisher description.
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Leander Preston describes his journey across the western United States. Along the way, Preston and his family met seceding Mormons and hired a small group of Indians to keep an eye on their cattle. Incomplete. Typescript from original. With introductory biographical typed note signed "Chas. A. Carner."
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