Author: NORMAN, Henry (Sir)
Title: All the Russias: Travels and Studies in Contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus & Central Asia. With One Hundred and Thirty-Seven Illustrations Chiefly from the Author's Photographs and Four Maps.
Description: London, William Heinemann, 1902. Contemporary or later green cloth, title and author in gilt to spine, boards plain. xvi+476pp. four maps (one folding) very many photographs in-text and full page. Presumed rebound - sympathetically in green cloth, now slightly mottled. Internally very tight, clean and in good condition. A sound copy. Sir Henry Norman (1858-1939), journalist and politician, travelled widely. Norman was initially a journalist by profession and is said to have investigated the Dreyfuss Affair. He was junior minister under Asquith and contributed to the development of Marconi's wireless telegraphy. Publications were on politics, international affairs and travel. Of his travel writing, he wrote on Japan, the Far East as well as the present volume. This book is of especial interest for the author's many photographs. Kerner 523.

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