Traveling In Siberia

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1868. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 18pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 15 characteristic Harper's engravings, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's Monthly, Volume XXXVII, No. 220, September, 1868. From the opening paragraph, "Just at sunset of an October day I left the steamer at Stratensk, the head of navigation on the Shilka, one of the affluents of the Amoor. A crown of soldiers, Cossacks, peasants, and dogs greeted us as we trod the narrow plank and ascended from the pebbly beach to the town." Illustrations include a view of Stratensk, a tarantass, a Bouriat village, a ferry crossing the Selenga River, finding lodging at Kiachta, the theater at Maimaichin, a view in Irkutsk, a portrait of the author, a vashok, the author's kazan kibitka, a view of the Valley of the Yenesei at Krasnoyarsk, and others of general interest. Housed in protective mylar report cover..