TREVOR-BATTYE, Aubyn.

A northern highway of the Tsar ... With map and illustrated by the author. Westminster, Archibald Constable & Co., 1898.

8vo, pp. [2], xiv, 256, [16 (advertisements)]; with portrait frontispiece, 9 plates, and 1 folding map; short closed tear to map; very good in original cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt; a little wear to extremities, light marks to covers, spine slightly discoloured; embossed blind stamp to title ‘Presented by Archibald Constable & Co.'.

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First edition, presentation copy from the publisher, of this account of Trevor-Battye’s ‘journey through the tundras and forests of high Northern Russia’ (p. vii). ‘Travelling by one of the high northern trails is easy enough in summer ... is delightful in winter ... but in Rasputnya it is not easy, it is very difficult, and no one dreams of moving then. It is freezing one day and thawing the next, the ice-charged rivers are dangerous for boats, and all the land is morass and swamp ... But an Englishman is proverbially obstinate; and ... through these swamps I was pushing inch by inch by various shifts and devices’ (pp. viii-ix). This work, together with the author’s Ice-bound on Kolguev (1895) ‘remain among the few English-language sources for Kolguyev’ (ODNB).

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TREVOR-BATTYE, Aubyn.

A northern highway of the Tsar ... With map and illustrated by the author. Westminster, Archibald Constable & Co., 1898.