Abstract
AFTER the return of M. Bonvalot and Prince Henry of Orleans from the East, so much was said of their journey that we need not now repeat any of the details of M. Bonvalot's narrative. It may suffice for us to commend the book very cordially to the attention of readers who like to wander in imagination with travellers in remote parts of the world. M. Bonvalot, as his translator says, has those qualities of courage, self-command, tenacity, knowledge of human character, and good humour, which go to make up the successful traveller; and he writes of his achievements so simply and naturally that there is nothing to interfere with the reader's full enjoyment of his story. The travellers, as everyone interested in geographical exploration will remember, started from the frontiers of Siberia, and in the course of the journey which brought them to Tonquin passed right through Tibet. Their route lay to some extent over ground which no European had ever before traversed, and this is, of course, the portion of his subject on which M. Bonvalot writes most carefully and effectively. The work has been translated in a clear and pleasant style, and it is enriched with many interesting illustrations.
Across Thibet.
By Gabriel Bonvalot. Translated by C. B. Pitman. Two Vols. (London: Cassell and Co., 1891.)
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Across Thibet . Nature 45, 269 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/045269a0
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