Or, The Life and Travels of Adelia Gates.
By ADELA E. ORPEN,
Author of “Stories of Precious Stones,” “Margareta Colberg,” etc.
With many Illustrations. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards, 7s. 6d.
This book is a record of a very remarkable series of travels undertaken by a lady named Adelia Gates. Alone and unaided she has trodden, not only the beaten tracks, but has also traversed the Desert of Sahara, the Nile as far as Wady Halfa, Palestine, and all parts of Iceland—these later trips beginning at an age when most ladies consider their life-work done.
Our Journey to Sinai.
A Visit to the Convent of St. Catarina.
By Mrs. R. L. BENSLY.
With a Chapter on some Readings of the Sinai Palimpsest, by F. C. Burkitt, M.A. Illustrated from Photographs taken by the Author. Crown 8vo. Cloth, 3s. 6d.
“The scholarly enthusiasm which attracted Professor Bensly to Mount Sinai, and the perennial fascinations of oriental travel are well reflected in Mrs. Bensly’s pages, and a concluding chapter by Mr. Burkitt, containing a part of the account of the Sinai Palimpsest which he gave at the Church Congress, adds not a little to the value and interest of the volume.”—The Times.
Among the Tibetans.
By ISABELLA BIRD BISHOP, F.R.G.S.
With Illustrations by Edward Whymper. Crown 8vo.
Cloth, 1s. 6d.; paper cover, 1s.
With her power of vivid description Mrs. Bishop enables the reader to realise much of the daily life and many of the strange scenes to be witnessed in that far-off land.