AUTUMN ANNOUNCEMENTS. 



Travel & 'Description continued. 



incredibly short time back Tierra del Fuego was a No-Mans-Land, where sheep-farmers, 

 gold-diggers, missionaries, naked Indians, seal-hunters, discredited traders, and officials 

 rubbed shoulders with the flotsam of half a continent. Through all, the influence of its 

 wild aborigines has been predominant in the history of Magellanes, which, it is to be 

 hoped, now enters upon a new and happier, if less interesting, epoch. With these topics 

 are interwoven the author's own recent experiences in the land of the Horn. Without 

 claiming scientific status, this work gives us an accurate and up-to-date picture of a 

 corner of the globe of which hitherto we have caught too fleeting glimpses in narratives 

 of more extended exploration. 



Siberia : A Record of Travel, Climbing, and 



Exploration. By SAMUEL TURNER, F.R.G.S. With more 

 than 100 Illustrations and 2 Maps. Demy 8vo, cloth. 



The materials for this book were gathered during a journey in Siberia in 1903. The 

 illustrations are selected out of 400 negatives of photographs taken by the author. 



Helped by over one hundred merchants (Siberian, Russian, Danish, and English) who 

 have lived in different parts of Siberia a few years, the writer was able to collect informa- 

 tion about and observe present social and industrial conditions and future prospects of 

 that vast country. The trade and country life of the mixed races of Siberia are described, 

 and valuable information is given about their chief industry the dairy industry which 

 should change the idea most people have that Siberia is snow-bound into the knowledge 

 that Siberia is now one of the leading agricultural countries in the world. 



The author describes his unaccompanied climbs in the mountains which he discovered 

 in the'"Kutunski Belki Range in the Altai Mountains, about 800 milesofl the Great Siberian 

 Railway line from a point about 2,500 miles beyond Moscow. He made a winter journey 

 of i, 600 miles on sledge, drosky, and horseback, 250 miles of this journey being through 

 country which has never been penetrated by any other European, even in summer. 



He also describes forty miles of probably the most difficult winter exploration that has 

 ever been undertaken, proving that even a dreaded Siberian winter cannot keep a true 

 mountaineer from scaling unknown peaks. 



The journey extended through frozen slopes of Alpine Jungles beyond even the nomad 

 bark-hut settlements, to the source of the mighty Obi river, and minute descriptions are 

 given of glacier and mountain, exploration and new discoveries. 



Such pioneer exploration should throw valuable light on this unknown and untrodden 

 part, on which there is no literature in the English language, though the Altai Mountain 

 district is ten times as large as Switzerland. Much geographical, botanical and zoological 

 information is given which will be of great interest to scientific men. 



Rambles On the Riviera. By EDUARD STRASBURGER, F.R.S.. 

 D.C.L. Oxon., Professor of Botany at the University of Bonn. With 

 87 Coloured Illustrations by LOUISE REUSCH. Translated from the 

 German by O. and B. COMERFOFD-CASEY. Demy 8vo, cloth. 



This volume is an account of the author's impressions of the Riviera during Spring 

 trips made in the course of ten years. His journeys have extended over both the Rivieras 

 di Ponente and di Levante, and he has visited all spots worthy of notice. These 

 " Rambles" make no pretensions to replacing the guide book. They are rather intended 

 to claim some attention for nature's treasures in that unique and beautiful region, to help 

 to a better understanding of every object we may meet with, and thereby to enhance the 

 delight of its peculiar charms. The book contains much botanical information, and there 

 are digressions dealing with classical references to those plants which are a characteristic 

 feature of the landscapes of Italy and Provence. 



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