Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume VIII, No. 5 [‎48v] (99/154)

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THE EXPLORATION OF THE CAUCASUS.
many expeditions will the enthusiastic climber be able to devise from
studying it, especially when Appendix B supplies him with a Climber’s
Guide in addition.’
THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.
‘ Mr. Freshfield has brought together the material for two monu
mental volumes, which are placed before the public in a form more
splendid than any other book of recent travel can boast.
‘ The refined and scholarly literary style of the text is Mr. Freshfield’s
own ; the illustrations of unexampled beauty are transmitted direct from
Nature through Signor Sella, whose name deservedly shares the title-
page, and the skilful (Jerman photo-engravers who have reproduced
them, enhanced in clearness, if that be possible, and disfigured by no
trace of retouching or “ artistic improvement.” With these photographs
and the new map of the Caucasus, drawn by Mr Reeves, the reader is
more nearly in the position of an actual traveller than the reader of a
book of travel ever was before. To study one of the long panoramas in
conjunction with the map is to seem to see the mountain system itself,
with its forests, rocks, and snows, its lofty passes and deep-cut valleys,
tenanted by the strange remnants of peoples who make their last stand
there against the inevitable absorption into Hurope.
‘While the illustrations are beautiful in themselves, and forma gallery
of mountain pictures which it is a pleasure for the least instructed to
pore over, their chief value lies in the fact that they are in the truest
sense illustrations, supplementing the written description, and enabling
it to tell its story with additional effect.’
THE SATURDAY REVIEW.
‘ We have given but a poor idea of the riches of these two superb
volumes. As we have said, there is abundance of climbing adventure.
But there is much more A monograph of permanent value on
one of the most interesting mountain ranges of the world, written in a
style that gives it the quality and attraction of literature.’
THE FIELD.
‘ One of the most charming and instructive books of travel that it has
ever been our good fortune to read The best series of illustrations
that we have ever seen in any work of travel It is not too much
to say that the map at the end of the book, both as regards its accuracy
and beauty, is far and away in advance of any maps of this region that
have ever been published in this or in any other country Every
thing seems to have been done to make the book not only attractive
but scientifically useful.’
LONDON : EDWARD ARNOLD, 37 BEDFORD STREET.