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Deng Xiaoping's southern tour (Chinese: 邓小平南巡), or 1992 southern tour (Chinese: 九二南巡), or simply Nanxun [1] (Chinese: 南巡) was the tour of Deng Xiaoping, the former paramount leader of China, in southern China, including in Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Guangzhou and Shanghai, from January 18 to February 21, 1992.
They were the first people to travel the length of the Americas solely by means of their own power. They completed six additional expeditions through National Geographic, working freelance at first and later as foreign editorial staff, for fifteen years, from 1956 to 1970. They worked as a team and lived for periods of time in about 50 ...
John Pope, author of A Tour, was the eldest son of Nathaniel Pope IV (1729–1806) and his wife, Lucy Smith (Fox) Pope (1732–1789) of Louisa County, Virginia. [1]: 3–5 [2] Evidence from A Tour suggests that John Pope was well educated, and tax records imply that he was wealthy, with more than 700 acres of land in his name.
The Southern Emigrant Trail was a major land route for immigration into California from the eastern United States that followed the Santa Fe Trail to New Mexico during the California Gold Rush. Unlike the more northern routes, pioneer wagons could travel this route year-round, as the mountain passes were not blocked by snows.
Bartram's Travels is the short title of naturalist William Bartram's book describing his travels in the American South and encounters with American Indians between 1773 and 1777. The book was published in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania in 1791 by the firm of James & Johnson.
A peninsula at the southern tip of the mainland, the Peloponnese region was the birth place of the Olympic Games. ... Learn More: 5 Financial Steps To Take Before You Travel Overseas. Lake Atitlan ...
Travels recounts Stevenson's 12-day, 200-kilometre (120 mi) solo hiking journey through the sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the Cévennes mountains in south-central France in 1878. [1] The terrain, with its barren rocky heather-filled hillsides, he often compared to parts of Scotland.
Charles Johnston MRCS (12 March 1812 – 16 July 1872) was a British surgeon, travel writer of Africa and founder of the Durban Botanic Gardens. Johnston visited the Ethiopian Empire (then known as Abyssinia) in 1842 – 1843 and recorded his experience in a book titled Travels in Southern Abyssinia, Through the Country of Adal to the Kingdom ...