Table of Contents:
  • Kharkov and Lubyanka
  • Trial and sentence
  • From prison to cattle truck
  • Three thousand miles by train
  • Chain gang
  • End of the journey
  • Life in Camp 303
  • The wife of the commissar
  • Plans for escape
  • Seven across the Lena River
  • Baikal and a fugitive girl
  • Kristina joins the party
  • Across the Trans-Siberian Railway
  • Eight enter Mongolia
  • Life among the friendly Mongols
  • The Gobi Desert : hunger, drought and death
  • Snake meat and mud
  • The last of the Gobi
  • Six enter Tibet
  • Five by-pass Lhasa
  • Himalayan foothills
  • Strange creatures
  • Four reach India.