ATKINSON'S SIBEEIA. 



ORIENTAL AND WESTERN SIBERIA : A Narrative of Seven 

 Years' Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the 

 Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and part of Central Asia. By 

 THOMAS WITLAM ATKINSON. With a Map and numerous Spir- 

 ited Illustrations from Drawings by the Author. 8vo (Uniform 

 with Dr. Livingstone's Soufn Africa), Muslin, $3 00 ; Half Calf, 

 $400. 



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

 of Russia during seven years' hunting, sketching, and traveling in the plains and 

 mountains of Oriental and Western Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chi- 

 nese Tartary, and Central Asia. Perhaps no English artist was ever before ad- 

 mitted 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. Mr. Atkinson's encampments lead us away into forests, gorges of 

 mountains, where the thunder shakes the ground and the lightning strikes, like 

 God's sword-blade, among the trees where the Tartars cower in their felt hut, 

 and the tea-drinkers grow silent rouud the red logs. Rivers to swim, torrents to 

 pass, became trifles to this adventurous traveler, who has brought us records of 

 places never, perhaps, before visited; for no Englishman has been there no 

 Russian traveler has written of them. London Athenceum. 



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

 landmark in geographical literature. Mr. Atkinson has traveled where it is be- 

 lieved no European has been before. He has seen nature in the wildest, sublim- 

 est, 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 an artist into an author. Mr. At- 

 kinson 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 humor, he tells many a racy stoiy. The sportsman and the lover of ad- 

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

 his interesting travels. London Daily News. 



"Mr. T. W. Atkinson, an artist of extraordinary merit, in pursuit of the pic- 

 turesque, has ventured into regions where, probably, no European foot save his, 

 has ever trodden. Mr. Atkinson' s travels embrace Oriental and Western Siberia, 

 Mongolia, Daouria, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and portions of Cen- 

 tral Asia, and occupied him for the space of seven years time which he has 

 turned to admirable account. It argues no slight devotion to Art to have un- 

 dertaken the task of giving to civilized Europe a transcript of what is at once 

 most beautiful and most wonderful in nature, in countries so remote, so difficult 

 of access, and, in many instances, so dangerous to the traveler. The public may 

 really feel grateful to Mr. Atkinson for thus widely extending our knowledge of 

 this hitherto unknown but most interesting part of the globe. 11 



It is a valuable addition to the literature of travel, and a famous contribution 

 also to the list of show books. Mr. Atkinson's book is most readable. The ge- 

 ographer finds in it notice of ground heretofore left undescribed the ethologist, 

 geologist, and botanist find notes and pictures, too, of which they know the value 

 the sportsman's taste is gratified by chronicles of sport the lover of adven- 

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

 frank, good-humored 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. London Examiner, 



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