Overland Through Asia

“What is Irkutsk?” asks a Wall Street banker, after assuring Thomas Wallace Knox that his letter of credit works anywhere in the civilized world. The answer leaves Knox newly certain that the country he is bound for is almost unknown.

In 1866, tired of an ocean voyage that offers “water and sky” in endless repetition, Knox chooses a route through Russia and northern Asia, with his passport endorsed for entry by the Amoor River. His journey begins amid champagne-fueled farewells and a cabin mate whose confident advice about seasickness lasts only until Sandy Hook. Beyond the familiar ports lies a land so little understood that even a banker cannot place the capital of Eastern Siberia. What will Knox discover in a region that his own countrymen scarcely know by name?

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