First published by Unicorn
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© John Massey Stewart, 2018
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ISBN 978–1–911604–30–3
eISBN 978–1–912690–37–4
Design: Felicity Price-Smith and Vivian Head
Printed in India by Imprint Press
Front cover: ‘Source of the Teric-sou, Chinese Tartary’
Back cover: ‘View looking down upon the lake’
Front endpaper: This map illustrates T.W. Atkinson’s routes across the seven years 1847-53, totalling nearly 40,000 miles through the Urals, Siberia and the Kirgiz steppe, now Kazakhstan. It appeared in his first book Oriental and Western Siberia, London 1858, which brought him fame as ‘the Siberian traveller’.
Back endpaper: A dramatic episode in Atkinson’s journal of September 1858 when the two Atkinsons were lost at night in the vast and featureless Kirgiz (Kazakh) steppe.