The Face of Manchuria, Korea, and Russian Turkestan

Abstract

THE facilities afforded by extended railway communication to remote regions of eastern Asia have rendered it possible for the leisured tourist to travel safely, and with comparative comfort, from Russia to the seaboard of Asia on the east in a direct line traversing a vast area, a great part of which still remains unexplored, especially in Korea and Russian Turkestan, although excellent work has been done within the last decade by intrepid travellers in crossing the deserts, and surveying the mountain chains in which this part of Asia abounds. Judging from previous work, the author, as an expert tourist, has had some useful training, and has not wholly confined descriptions of the route to the face of things, but has invested the work with unusual interest by historical and other notes concerning the races inhabiting the countries traversed. Four months covered the outward and return journeys, following the lines of the Transsiberian Railway, and onward by connecting lines to Korea, and home again.

The Face of Manchuria, Korea, and Russian Turkestan.

Written and illustrated by E. G. Kemp. Pp. xv + 248 + xxiv plates. (London: Chatto and Windus, 1910.) Price 7s. 6d. net.