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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II THE DEPARTURE Prince Borghese?The car?Preparations?The eve of battle? Departure. In six days Prince Borghese had covered 300 miles on horseback, exploring all the roads between Pekin and Kalgan, and measuring their narrowest points with a rod as long as the motor-car was broad. Princess Anna-Maria, his wife, and a young lady friend accompanied him on his rough ride; and the two ladies, also armed with measuring rods, had shared his labour in surveying the land. Every branch of every cross-road was scanned and searched, and the best path was noted. Prince Borghese returned to Pekin with a whole topographic map in his brain. The powers of that brain are prodigious. It registers with the faithfulness of a photographic machine all that the Prince's eyes perceive or his ears gather. Names, dates, snatches of Oriental speech, the most difficult things to remember, remain engraved upon that iron memory. Don Scipione never takes notes; he does not need them. His mind seizes and holds everything. He can tell you the landmarks of roads seen years ago. When he travels over new countries on horsebackor on his car, he consults his map before starting for the day, and he seldom needs to look at it again. He remembers the branching of the ways, the lie of the roads, the distances; he can tell you the names of the villages, and does, too, pointing them out to you like an experienced guide. If a man could remember all that he has ever seen, heard, or read in his life, that man would be possessed of a culture marvellously vast, deep, and varied. Prince Borghese is, in fact, an exceptionally cultured man; and he has a keen, clear intellect, which automatically sifts and classifies his knowledge. The office of librarian in this abode of learning (to use a bold metaphor), is fill...

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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780217970785
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0217970788
Paperback
Publishing year: 2010
Publisher: General Books LLC

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ISBN/EAN: 9780217970785

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0-217-97078-8, 978-0-217-97078-5
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Book author: luigi, barzini
Book title: pekin paris

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