Siberia : 



A Record of Travel, Climbing, and Exploration. 



By SAMUEL TURNER, F.R.G.S. 



WITH A PREFACE BY BARON IIEYKING. 



With more than loo Illustrations, and with 2 Maps. 



Demv 8vo, cloth, 21/- net. 



THE materials for this book were gathered during a journey in 

 Siberia in 1903. Helped by over 100 merchants (Siberian, 

 Russian, Danish and English) the writer was able to collect much 

 information, and observe the present social and industrial condition 

 of the country. The trade and country life of the mixed races of 

 Siberia is described, and valuable information is given about their 

 chief industry (dairy produce), which goes far to dissipate the 

 common idea that Siberia is snow-bound, and to show that it 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, about 

 800 miles off the Great Siberian Railway line from a point about 

 2,500 miles beyond Moscow. He made a winter journey of 1,600 

 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 40 miles of 

 what was probably the most diflScult winter exploration that has 

 ever been undertaken, proving that even the rigour of a Siberian 

 winter cannot keep a true mountaineer from scaling unknown peaks. 



The volume is elaborately illustrated from photographs by the 

 author. 



"To the trader and to the explorer, and to many who are neither, but who 

 love to read books of travel and to venture in imagination into wild places of the 

 earth, this book is heartily to be commended. It is lively, entertaining, in- 

 structive. It throws fresh light on the Empire of the Czars. Above all, it is a 

 record of British pluck." — Scotsman. 



LONDON: T. FISHER UNVVIN. 



