Across the desert of Gobi. A narrative of an escape during the Boxer Uprising, June to September, 1900

by Mark Williams

$325 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Hamilton, Ohio: Press of Republican Publishing Company, 1901. First edition, 8vo, pp. 26; frontispiece, full-page map, 2 plates, complimentary slip tipped in at p. 1 reading with the compliments of the author; original, green cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover; about fine. Four missionaries on the run from Peking into Siberia. The out-burst of the Chinese against all foreigners in June, 1900, was so sudden, that many of our missionaries in the interior were

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