First edition, with a frontispiece, 5 other coloured chromolithographic plates, and several woodcuts in the text. Modern quarter leather. 8vo., pp. xvi, 650pp. London, George Routledge and Sons, 1869.
A well-written account by the journalist and “Prince of war correspondents” of travels through Egypt and the Near East. With sections on the Crimea, Dardanelles and the Bosphorus.
