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MR. BIGHAM gives a simple, straightforward an3 modest account of a journey of the “record-breaking” order. In a year and a month he travelled, mainly on horseback, from Constantinople through Asia Minor, Persia and Central Asia, reaching as far as Kashgar, thence returning viâ Siberia and Russia. The small size of the book is welcome, and indeed remarkable, as it shows that the author cherishes no undue opinion of his somewhat remarkable journey. It is to be regretted, however, that his duties as a correspondent at the seat of war deprived the proof-sheets of his personal revision, and that many slips, chiefly in place-names, have thus eluded observation. Mr. Bigham was possessed of the best qualities of an explorer determined to go through a given programme; but he does not mention the special object for his expedition, nor does he tell much which had not previously been placed on record. The object presumably was merely pleasure, and the points of original importance refer to matters of undoubted interest, but so intimately involving political questions as to be unsuited for special reference here.
A Ride through Western Asia.
By Clive Bigham. With illustrations. Pp. 276. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1897.)
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A Ride through Western Asia. Nature 56, 222 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056222a0
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