A VAGABOND IN THE CAUCASUS
WITH SOME NOTES OF HIS EXPERIENCES AMONG THE RUSSIANS
By STEPHEN GRAHAM
With Sixteen Illustrations and Two Maps
Demy 8vo, 12s. 6d. net
PRESS OPINIONS
Daily Telegraph.—“One of the most individual and interesting volumes of travel talk that we have had for many a long day. A work of quite exceptional charm and interest. An attraction that will make most readers look forward with pleasurable anticipation to the author’s future work.”
Morning Post.—“It is a good book, full of suggestiveness, promise, and horizon.”
Westminster Gazette.—“Mr. Graham’s literary touch has the delightful intimate comradeship of the born wanderer, and his book is all too short.”
Daily News.—“A book of impressions and adventures with an unusually fine literary flavour.”
Standard.—“. . . written with keen insight and literary skill . . . abounds with practical hints for prospective travellers.”
Evening Standard.—“Mr. Graham has had adventures. He relates them well. His style is direct and racy. Everything is real . . . entertaining.”
Truth.—“A perfectly delightful book.”
Academy.—“Mr. Graham writes with the intimate personal touch that gives distinction to Stevenson’s ‘Travels with a Donkey’ and Belloc’s ‘Path to Rome.’”
Observer.—“Mr. Graham’s experiences make an entertaining book.”
Graphic.—“An attractive book.”
Country Life.—“You follow his adventures with the same interest you would follow an engrossing novel, because you see the man and feel something of his passion.”
Bookman.—“In every way this is a most charming and attractive book. Mr. Graham’s views are fresh and original.”
Shooting Times.—“Distinctly entertaining.”
KASHMIR: The Land of Streams and Solitudes. By P. Pirie. With Twenty-five Full-page Plates in Colour, and upwards of 100 other Illustrations by H. R. Pirie. Crown 4to (10 × 6½in.). 21s. net.
Globe.—“This is a delightful book.”
Liverpool Courier.—“It is one of the handsomest productions that has come from the Bodley Head for a considerable time.”
Observer.—“The book is a treasure, and will be turned over often with joy and sighs.”
RIFLE AND ROMANCE IN THE INDIAN JUNGLE: Being the Record of Thirteen Years of Indian Jungle Life. By Major A. I. R. Glasfurd (Indian Army). With numerous Illustrations by the Author and Reproductions from Photographs. New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
Literary World.—“To the list of books on big-game shooting that can be commended equally to the sportsman and the general reader must be added this truly fascinating work. We have read it through from cover to cover, and pronounce it excellent.”
Academy.—“Search where we will through this entertaining book, we always happen upon sound literature, fine description, good natural history, and lively adventure. The author is clearly in love with his subject, and the pictures of jungle scenery and jungle life are wonderfully vivid . . . in all respects a first-rate book.”
CEYLON: The Paradise of Adam. The Record of Seven Years’ Residence in the Island. By Caroline Corner. With Sixteen Full-page Illustrations. Reproduced from Photographs. Demy 8vo (9 × 5¾ in.). 10s. 6d. net.
Daily Chronicle.—“This book is merry—merry, witty, observant, and readable: observation in lighter vein, however, with a serious note of information and experience.”
BIG GAME SHOOTING ON THE EQUATOR. By Captain F. A. Dickinson, F.R.G.S. With an Introduction by Sir Charles Norton Eliot, K.C.M.G., late Commissioner for British East Africa. 77 Illustrations reproduced from Photographs. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
LAKE VICTORIA TO KHARTOUM: With Rifle and Camera. By Captain F. A. Dickinson, D.C.L.I., F.R.G.S. With an Introduction by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, and numerous Illustrations from Photographs taken by the Author. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
SERVICE AND SPORT IN THE SUDAN. A Record of Administrations in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, with Intervals of Sport and Travel. By D. C. E. ff. Comyn, F.R.G.S. (late of the Black Watch). With 31 Illustrations and 3 Maps. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
STALKS IN THE HIMALAYA: Jottings of a Sportsman-Naturalist. By E. P. Stebbing, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S. With upwards of 100 Illustrations by the Author and others. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
NOTICE
Those who possess old letters, documents, correspondence, MSS., scraps of autobiography, and also miniatures and portraits, relating to persons and matters historical, literary, political and social, should communicate with Mr. John Lane, The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, London, W., who will at all times be pleased to give his advice and assistance, either as to their preservation or publication.