Through Siberia

Chapter 2: PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION.

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About This Book

A traveler recounts a journey across Siberia, combining first-hand narrative with material drawn from other sources. Much attention is given to prisons, exile life, and penal mines, with descriptions of conditions, administration, and meetings with authorities and former prisoners. The narrative also records geographic and natural-history observations, practical travel experiences, and statistical or documentary notes. Appendices, illustrations, and maps complement the text by supplying bibliographic, scientific, and cartographic detail.

PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION.

Being about to leave England on a projected tour through Russian Central Asia, and the second edition of “Through Siberia” having become nearly exhausted, I find myself called upon to make preparation for a third and cheaper issue. It is only necessary to say that the subject-matter of the third and second editions is alike, the third edition, however, being bound in one volume, and printed on thinner paper, with somewhat fewer illustrations.

H. L.

Blackheath,

21st June, 1882.