8 HURST AND BLACKETT's NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



ORIENTAL AND WESTERN SIBERIA ; A NAR- 



RATIVE OF SEVEN YEARS' EXPLORATIONS AND ADVENTURES IN SIBERIA, 

 MONGOLIA, THE KIRGHIS STEPPES, CHINESE TARTARY, AND CENTRAL 

 ASIA. By THOMAS WITLAM ATKINSON. In one large volume, 

 royal 8vo., Price 2. 2s., elegantly bound. Embellished with upwards 

 of 50 Illustrations, including numerous beautifully coloured plates, from 

 drawings by the Author, and a map. 



"By virtue alike of its text and its pictures, we place this book of travel in the first 

 rank among those illustrated gift books now so much sought by the public. Mr. Atkinson's 

 book is most readable. The geographer finds in it notice of ground heretofore left 

 undescribed, the ethnologist, geologist, and botanist, find notes and pictures, too, of which 

 they know the value, the sportman's taste is gratified by chronicles of sport, the lover of 

 adventure will find a number of perils and escapes to hang over, and the lover of a frank 

 good-humoured way of speech will find the book a pleasant one in every page. Seven 

 years of wandering, thirty-nine thousand five hundred miles of moving to and fro in a wild 

 and almost unknown country, should yield a book worth reading, and they do." Examiner. 



"A book of travels which in value and sterling interest must take rank as a landmark 

 in geographical literature. Its coloured illustrations and wood engravings are of a high 

 order, and add a great charm to the narrative. Mr. Atkinson has travelled where it is 

 believed no European has been before. He has seen nature in the wildest, sublimest, and 

 also the most beautiful aspects the old world can present. These he has depicted by pen 

 and pencil. He has done both well. Many a fireside will rejoice in the determination which 

 converted the artist into an author. Mr. Atkinson is a thorough Englishman, brave and 

 accomplished, a lover of adventure and sport of every kind. He knows enough of mineralogy, 

 geology, and botany to impart a scientific interest to his descriptions and drawings ; 

 possessing a keen sense of humour, he tells many a racy story. The sportsman and the 

 lover of adventure, whether by flood or field, will find ample stores in the stirring tales of 

 his interesting travels." Daily News. 



"An animated and intelligent narrative, appreciably enriching the literature of English 

 travel. Mr. Atkinson's sketches were made by express permission of the late Emperor of 

 Russia. Perhaps no English artist was ever before admitted into this enchanted land of 

 history, or provided with the talisman and amulet of a general passport; and well has Mr. 

 Atkinson availed himself of the privilege. Our extracts will have served to illustrate the 

 originality and variety of Mr. Atkinson's observations and adventures during his protracted 

 wanderings of nearly forty thousand miles. Mr. Atkinson's pencil was never idle, and he 

 has certainly brought home with him the forms, and colours, and other characteristics of a 

 most extraordinary diversity of groups and scenes. Asa sportsman Mr. Atkinson enjoyed 

 a plenitude of excitement. His narrative is well stored with incidents of adventure. 

 His ascent of the Bielouka is a chapter of the most vivid romance of travel, yet it is less 

 attractive than his relations of wanderings across the Desert of Gobi and up the Tangnou 

 Chain." Athenaeum. 



"We predict that Mr. Atkinson's 'Siberia' will very often assume the shape of a 

 Christmas Present or New Year's Gift, as it possesses, in an eminent degree, four very 

 precious and suitable qualities for that purpose, namely, usefulness, elegance, instruction 

 and novelty. It is a work of great value, not merely on account of its splendid illustrations, 

 but for the amount it contains of authentic and highly interesting intelligence concerning 

 regions which, in all probability, has never, previous to Mr. Atkinson's explorations, been 

 visited by an European. Mr. Atkinson's adventures are told in a manly style. The valuable 

 and interesting information the book contains, gathered at a vast expense, is lucidly 

 arranged, and altogether the work is one that the author-artist may well be proud of, and 

 with which those who study it cannot fail to be delighted." John Bull. 



" To the geographer, the geologist, the ethnographer, the sportsman, and to those who 

 read only for amusement, this will be an acceptable volume. Mr. Atkinson is rot only an 

 adventurous traveller, but a correct and amusing writer." Literary Gazette, 



