Introduction. Résumé of central Asian exploration
The plan and objects of my journey
Across Russia to Orenburg
Across the Kirghiz Steppes
From Lake Aral to Tashkend
From Tashkend to Margelan
The Syr-Daria
A winter journey over the Pamirs. Up the Isafaïran Valley
Over the Tenghiz-Bai Pass
Up the Alaï Valley
Over the Trans-Alaï
Lake Kara-Kul
Population of the Russian Pamirs
Geographical summary
Fort Pamir
The Mus-Tagh-Ata and its glaciers. From the Murghab to Bulun-Kul
Mus-Tagh-Ata
An attempt to climb Mus-Tagh-Ata
Reminiscences of a Kashgar
A Chinese dinner-party
From Kashgar to Ighiz-Yar
Through the Gorge of Tenghi-Tar
The plain of Tagharma
Among the Kirghiz
Little Kara-Kul Lake
Little Kara-Kul Lake (continued)
Amongst the glaciers of Mus-Tagh-Ata
My second attempt to ascend Mus-Tagh-Ata
My third attempt to ascend Mus-Tagh-Ata
Moonlight on Mus-Tagh-Ata
To Fort Pamir and back
Boating adventures on the Little Kara-Kul
Life among the Kirghiz
Return to Kashgar
Across the Takla-Makan Desert. To Maral-Bashi
An excursion to the Masar-Tagh
The Shrine of Ordan Padshah
On th threshold of the desert
The start from Merket
Skirting the desert
An earthly paradise
In the ban of the desert
The camels break down
No water left
The camp of death
The crisis comes
A desperate march
Human beings at last
With the shepherds of the Khotan-Daria
A rescue party
Down the Kotan-Daria
From Ak-Su to Kashgar.

A summer trip to the southern Pamirs. Over the Ullug-Art Pass
With the Anglo-Russian Boundary Commission
Festivities on the Roof of the World
Over the mountains to the Yarkand-Daria and to Kashgar
Across the Desert of Gobi to Lop-Nor. From Kashgar to Kargalik
Alongside the desert to Khotan
City and oasis of Khotan
Borasan and its archæological remains
History of Khotan
The buried city of Takla-Makan
A curious shepherd race
Down the Keriay-Daria
Where the wild camel lives
Where is the Tarim?
Through the forests of the Tarim
At Korla and Kara-Shahr
The Lop-Nor problem
A boat excursion on the northern Lop-Nor
Along Przhevalsky's Lob-Nor by boat
The return to Khotan
The sequel of my desert journey
Through northern Tibet and Tsaidam. Over the Kwen-Lun Passes
My caravan : its several members
We enter uninhabited regions
Amongst the spurs of the Arka-Tagh
Searching for a pass
The deceitful Taghliks
Over the Arka-Tagh at last
The wild ass
Hunting the wild yak
Lakes without end
Tibetan storms
Discoveries of inscribed stones
Inhabited regions again
Among the Mongols of Tsaidam
Through the Desert of Tsaidam
Among the Mongolian lakes
An encounter with Tangut robbers
From Tsaidam to Peking. Through the country of the Tanguts
Koko-Nor
From Koko-Nor to Ten-Kar
The temple of ten thousand images
Si-ning-Fu and the Dungan Revolt
From Sin-Ning-Fu to Liang-Chow-Fu
Through the Desert of Ala-Shan
Wang-Yeh-Fu and Ning-Sha
To Peking and home.