... 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. Cousin Harryby Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1858Full view - About this book
| 1858 - 848 pages
...Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and Part of Central Asia. By THOMAS WITLAM ATKISSOS. " By virtue alike of iU text and Its pictures, we place this book of travel...geographer finds in it notice of ground heretofore left undcscribed, the ethnologist, geologist, and botanist find notes and picture», too, of which the;... | |
| Pierre Jean de Béranger - 1858 - 358 pages
...gift-books now so much sought by the public. It is a valuable addition to the literature of travel ; ft ts a famous contribution also to the list of show-books...the sportsman's taste is gratified by chronicles of spurt, the lover of adventure will find a number of perils and otcape* to hang over, and the lover... | |
| lady Caroline Lucy Scott (hon.) - 1858 - 308 pages
...gift books now so much sought by the public. It is a valuable addition to the literature of travel. Mr. Atkinson's book is most readable. The geographer...notes and pictures, too, of which they know the value i the sportsman's taste is gratiflert by chronicles of sport, the lover of adventure will find a number... | |
| Frederick Metcalfe - 1858 - 376 pages
...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...find notes and pictures, too, of which they know the va ue, the sportsman's taste is gratified by chronicles of sport, the lover of adventure will find... | |
| Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1858 - 342 pages
...book of truvet 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...find notes and pictures, too, of which they know the vaiiif, the sportsman's taste is gratified by chronicles of sport, the lover of adventure will find... | |
| B- (mme de.) - 1858 - 452 pages
...the first rank among those illustrated gift-books now so much sought by the public. Mr. Atkinson*! book is most readable. The geographer finds In it...and pictures, too, of which they know the value, the sportsmanis taste is gratified by chronicles of sport, the lover of adventure will find a number of... | |
| Henry John Coke (hon.) - 1858 - 380 pages
...gift btoks now so much sought by the public. It is a valuable addition to the literature of travel. Mr. Atkinson's book is most readable. The geographer...ethnologist, geologist, and botanist, find notes and pictuies, too, of which they know the value ; the sportsman's taste is gratified by chronicles of sport,... | |
| 1858 - 782 pages
...would not be of interest. The geographer finds in it notice of ground heretofore unde•cribed — the ethnologist, geologist, and botanist find notes,...the sportsman's taste is gratified by chronicles of (port — the lover of adventure will find a number of perils and escapes to hang over, and the lover... | |
| Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1858 - 812 pages
...that would n»t be of interest. The geographer finds in it notice of ground heretofore nndescribed — the ethnologist, geologist, and botanist find notes,...the sportsman's taste is gratified by chronicles of •port — the lover of adventure will find a number of perils and escapes to hang over, and the lover... | |
| Charles Napier North - 1858 - 328 pages
...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 undescrlbed, the ethnologist, geologist, and botanist, find notes and pictures, too, of wbich they... | |
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