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    Tit ~W 296 The Publishers' Circular Apri...

    tit ~ W 296 The Publishers' Circular April 2 1883 —

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    ~ Now Ready , octavo , sewed , price Ss . r-i-iTia—CT ENGLISH CATALOGUE OF BOOKS FOR 1882 . Containing a Complete List of all the Books published in Great Britain and Ireland in the year 1882 , with their Sizes , Prices , and Publishers' * Names ; ALSO OF Tbe Principal Books Published in the United States of America . WITH THE ADDITION OP I A . N INDEX TO SUBJECTS . 1 A CONTINUATION OF THE LONDON & BRITISH CATALOGUES . j New and . Cheaper Edition . I THROUGH SIBERIA . By HENRY LANSDELL . Illustrated with 43 Engravings , Route and Ethnographical Maps , and Photograph , of the Author in Salmon-skin Costume of the Gilyaks on the Lower Amur ,. 1 vol . royal 8 vo . pricellOs . 6 d . A journey of 8 , 000 miles from the Urals to the Pacific , on the rivers Obi , Amur , and Ussuri , and by the hire of a thousand horses . The Author travelled privately on an expedition of a philanthropic and religious character to the penal establishments of Siberia , and describes his visits to nearly all its hospitals , prisons , and mines , giving a mass of authentic information concerning the exiles such as has never been published before . The book treats more or less fully of all parts oi the country , as to its geography , natural history , and inhabitants , both Russian and aboriginal , pointing out also the commercial prospects of Western Siberia in connection with the recent voyages of Wiggins and Nordenskjold ; whilst 3 , 000 miles of the Amur and Ussuri are here described by an English author as an eye-witnoss for the first time . 4 We can promise the readers of Mr . Lanedoll ' s book a great deal of entertainment combined witli instruction / ' -A . genuine record of a remarkable expedition . '—Athenaeum . ijLLUflTJ . ATKD LONDON NBVV 3 . , mor ? e Mr readable . Lansdell , than ia never many te novela dious . ; ' — and Acadkmy wo are of . opinion that " 1 hroogh ^ Siberia " is much more entertaining , and certainly London : SAMPSON Crown LOW Build , MARSTON ings , 188 Flee , t Stree SBARLE t , E . C . , & RIVINGTON , ( J 90 )

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 2, 1883, page 296, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02041883/page/20/