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Harper's Catalogue of Travel-Books is one of the literary curiosities of the day, exhibiting at a glance the contributions of modern travel to geographical and other knowledge. Commencing with South Africa, and marking on a map the tracks of these travelers, the reader will be astonished to see how thoroughly they cover the length and breadth of Africa. Livingstone, Ellis, Burton, Du Chaillu, Reade, Andersson, Speke, Davis, Wilson, and others, have within a few years explored Africa pretty thoroughly; Egypt and the Holy Land have been repeatedly described in late times; Layard had given us the revelations of the Euphrates and the Tigris valleys; Atkinson had written his admirable accounts of Siberia, illustrated by his own most brilliant pencil; Huc and others described China; and now a hitherto almost unknown portion of the very heart of Asia is opened to us by the delightful book of Vámbéry.—N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
Livingstone's Zambesi. Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries; and of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864. By David and Charles Livingstone. With Map and Illustrations. 8vo, Cloth, $5 00.
Dr. Livingstone's South Africa. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loando on the West Coast; thence across the Continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. By David Livingstone, LL.D., D.C.L. With Portrait, Maps by Arrowsmith, and numerous Illustrations. 8vo, Cloth, $4 50.
Social Life of the Chinese: With some Account of their Religious Governmental, and Business Customs and Opinions. With special but not exclusive reference to Fuhchau. By Rev. Justus Doolittle, Fourteen Years Member of the American Board. With over 150 Illustrations. In Two Volumes. 12mo, Cloth. Beveled Edges, $5 00
The Story of the Great March: Diary of General Sherman's Campaign through Georgia and the Carolinas. By Brevet Major George Ward Nichols, Aid-de-Camp to General Sherman. With a Map and numerous Illustrations, and an Appendix, containing Official Reports by Major-General Sherman, Quarter-master and Commissary Reports, &c. Twenty-second Edition. 12mo, Cloth, Beveled Edges, $2 00.
Captain Hall's Arctic Researches and Life among the Esquimaux. Arctic Researches and Life among the Esquimaux: being the Narrative of an Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, in the Years 1860, 1861, and 1862. By Charles Francis Hall. With Maps and 100 Illustrations. 8vo, Cloth, $5 00.
Vámbéry's Central Asia. Travels in Central Asia. Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran across the Turkoman Desert, on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian, to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand, performed in the Year 1863. By Arminius Vámbéry. With Map and Woodcuts. 8vo, Cloth, $4 50.
Reade's Savage Africa. Western Africa: Being the Narrative of a Tour in Equatorial, Southwestern, and Northwestern Africa; with Notes on the Habits of the Gorilla; on the Existence of Unicorns and Tailed Men; on the Slave Trade; on the Origin, Character, and Capabilities of the Negro, and of the future Civilization of Western Africa. By W. Winwood Reade. With Illustrations and a Map. 8vo, Cloth. $4 00.
Speke's Africa. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile. By Captain John Hanning Speke. With Maps and Portraits, and numerous Illustrations, chiefly from Drawings by Captain Grant. 8vo, Cloth, uniform with Livingstone, Barth, Burton, &c. Price $4 00.
Du Chaillu's Africa. Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa: with Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chase of the Gorilla, the Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and other Animals. By Paul B. du Chaillu, Corresponding Member of the American Ethnological Society; of the Geographical and Statistical Society of New York; and of the Boston Society of Natural History. With numerous Illustrations. 8vo, Cloth, $5 00.
Squier's Central America, The States of Central America: Their Geography, Topography, Climate, Population, Resources, Productions, Commerce, Political Organization, Aborigines, &c., &c. Comprising Chapters on Honduras, San Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Belize, the Bay Islands, the Mosquito Shore, and the Honduras Inter-Oceanic Railway. By E. G. Squier, formerly Chargé d'Affaires of the United States to the Republics of Central America. With numerous Original Maps and Illustrations. A New and Enlarged Edition. 8vo, Cloth, $4 00.
Squier's Nicaragua. Nicaragua: Its People, Scenery, Monuments, Resources, Condition, and proposed Canal. With 100 Maps and Illustrations. By E. G. Squier, formerly Chargé d'Affaires of the United States to the Republics of Central America. A Revised Edition. 8vo, Cloth, $4 00.
Squier's Waikna. Waikna; or, Adventures on the Mosquito Shore. By Samuel A. Bard. With a Map of the Mosquito Shore, and upward of 60 original Illustrations. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
Burton's City of the Saints. The City of the Saints; and Across the Rocky Mountains to California. By Captain Richard F. Burton, Fellow and Gold Medalist of the Royal Geographical Societies of France and England; H. M. Consul in West Africa; Author of "The Lake Regions of Central Africa." With Maps and numerous Illustrations. 8vo, Cloth, $3 50.
Burton's Lake Regions of Central Africa. The Lake Regions of Central Africa, A Picture of Exploration. By Richard F. Burton, Captain H.M.I. Army; Fellow and Gold Medalist of the Royal Geographical Society. With Maps and Engravings on Wood. 8vo, Cloth, $3 50.
Atkinson's Amoor Regions. Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor, and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China. With Adventures among the Mountain Kirghis; and the Manjours, Manyargs, Toungouz, Touzemtz, Goldi, and Gelyaks; the Hunting and Pastoral Tribes. By Thomas Witlam Atkinson, F.G.S., F.R.G.S., Author of "Oriental and Western Siberia." With a Map and numerous Illustrations. 8vo, Cloth, $3 50.
Andersson's Okavango River. The Okavango River. A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure. By Charles John Andersson, Author of "Lake Ngami." With a Steel Portrait of the Author, numerous Woodcuts, and a Map, showing the Regions explored by Andersson, Cumming, Livingstone, and Du Chaillu. 8vo, Cloth, $3 50.
Stephens's Travels in Central America. Travels in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan. By J. L. Stephens. With a Map and 88 Engravings. 2 vols., 8vo, Cloth, $6 00.
Stephens's Travels in Yucatan. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. By J. L. Stephens. 120 Engravings, from Drawings by F. Catherwood. 2 vols., 8vo, Cloth, $6 00.
Stephens's Travels in Egypt. Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land. By J. L. Stephens. Engravings. 2 vols., 12mo, Cloth, $3 00.
Stephens's Travels in Greece. Travels in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland. By J. L. Stephens. Engravings. 2 vols., 12mo, Cloth, $3 00.
Arizona and Sonora. The Geography, History, and Resources of the Silver Region of North America. By Sylvester Mowry, late Lieutenant United States Army, late United States Boundary Commissioner, &c. With Illustrations. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
"From Dan to Beersheba;" or, The Land of Promise as it now Appears. Including a Description of the Boundaries, Topography, Agriculture, Antiquities, Cities, and Present Inhabitants of that Wonderful Land. With Illustrations of the Remarkable Accuracy of the Sacred Writers in their Allusions to their Native Country. By Rev. J. P. Newman, D.D. Maps and Engravings. 12mo, Cloth, $1 75.
Hunting in South Africa. African Hunting from Natal to the Zambesi, including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, &c., from 1852 to 1860. By William Charles Baldwin, Esq., F.R.G.S. With Illustrations by James Wolf and J. B. Zwecker. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
Wyoming; Its History, Stirring Incidents, and Romantic Adventures. By George Peck, D.D. With Illustrations. 12mo, Cloth, $1 75.
Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation in 1838-1839. By Frances Anne Kemble. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
Three Years in Japan. The Capital of the Tycoon: A Narrative of a Three Years' Residence in Japan. By. Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan. With Maps and numerous Illustrations. 2 vols., 12mo, Cloth, $3 50.
The Sioux War. History of the Sioux War and Massacres of 1862 and 1863. By Isaac V. D. Heard. With Portraits and Illustrations. 12mo, Cloth, $1 75.
Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk. With, Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe. By J. Ross Browne. With Illustrations. 12mo, Cloth, $1 75.
Davis's Carthage. Carthage and Her Remains: Being an Account of the Excavations and Researches on the Site of the Phœnician Metropolis in Africa and other Adjacent Places. Conducted under the Auspices of Her Majesty's Government. By Dr. Davis, F.R.G.S. Profusely Illustrated with Maps, Woodcuts, Chromo-Lithographs, &c., &c. 8vo, Cloth, $4 00.
Lamont's Seasons with the Sea-Horses. Seasons with the Sea-Horses, or, Sporting Adventures in the Northern Seas. By James Lamont, Esq., F.G.S. With Map and Illustrations. 8vo, Cloth, $3 00.
Life and Adventure in the South Pacific. By Jones. With Illustrations. 8vo, Cloth, $1 50.
Pfeiffer's Last Travels and Autobiography. The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer: inclusive of a Visit to Madagascar. With an Autobiographical Memoir of the Author. Translated by H. W. Duloken. Steel Portrait. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
Lord Elgin's Mission to China, &c. Narrative of Lord Elgin's Mission to China and Japan in 1857, '58, '59. By Laurence Oliphant, Secretary to Lord Elgin. Illustrations. 8vo, Cloth, $3 50.
Life in Spain. Past and Present. By Walter Thornbury, Author of "Every Man his own Trumpeter," "Art and Nature," "Songs of the Cavaliers and Roundheads," &c. With Illustrations. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
The Prairie Traveller. A Hand-Book for Overland Emigrants. With Maps, Illustrations, and Itineraries of the Principal Routes between the Mississippi and the Pacific By Randolph B. Marcy, U. S. Army. Published by Authority of the War Department. 16mo, Cloth, $1 00.
Ellis's Madagascar. Three Visits to Madagascar during the Years 1853—1854—1856. Including a Journey to the Capital, with Notices of the Natural History of the Country and of the Present Civilization of the People. By the Rev. William Ellis, F.H.S., Author of "Polynesian Researches." Illustrated by a Map and Woodcuts from Photographs, &c. 8vo, Cloth, $3 50.
Fankwei; or, The San Jacinto in the Seas of India, China, and Japan. By William Maxwell Wood, M.D., U.S.N., late Surgeon of the Fleet to the United States East India Squadron, Author of "Wandering Sketches in South America, Polynesia," &c., &c. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
Page's La Plata. La Plata: The Argentine Confederation and Paraguay. Being a Narrative of the Exploration of the Tributaries of the River La Plata and Adjacent Countries, during the Years 1853, '54, '55, and '56, under the orders of the United States Government. By Thomas J. Page, U.S.N., Commander of the Expedition. With Maps and numerous Engravings. 8vo, Cloth, $5 00.
The Land and the Book; or, Biblical Illustrations drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and the Scenery of the Holy Land. By W. M. Thomson, D.D., Twenty-five Years a Missionary of the A.B.C.F.M. in Syria and Palestine. With two elaborate Maps of Palestine, an Accurate Plan of Jerusalem, and several Hundred Engravings, representing the Scenery, Topography, and Productions of the Holy Land, and the Costumes, Manners, and Habits of the People. Two elegant Large 12mo Volumes, Cloth, $5 00.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Some illustrations had no caption in the original text. A caption, matching the name in the List of Illustrations, has been added in these cases. These captions have the text enclosed in (), for example p. 110 (Colliery Wagons).
Except for those changes noted below, misspelling by the author, inconsistent or archaic usage, has been retained. For example, chainman, chain-man; lifetime, life-time; mail train, mail-train; wrought iron, wrought-iron; 'savans' retained (archaic form of 'savants').
p. ix 'Kingdon' changed to 'Kingdom'.
p. 97 'Frith' changed to 'Firth'.
p. 115 "Robin Cowen's" changed to "Robin Cowens's".
p. 135 'and, and Mr.' changed to 'and Mr.'
p. 208 'compararatively' changed to 'comparatively'.
p. 212 'Frith' changed to 'Firth'.
p. 220 'Frith' changed to 'Firth'.
p. 239 'orginal' changed to 'original'.
p. 330 'cenveniently' changed to 'conveniently'.
p. 410 'tisue' changed to 'tissue'.
p. 416 'enconiums' changed to 'encomiums'.
p. 445 'cleet' changed to 'cleat'.
Index entry: 'Egypt' page '507' changed to '475'.