1st ed., London : Hurst & Blackett, and New York : Harper & Brothers, 1860; 2nd ed., 1861. Howgego, II, A18; Czech p.15; Yakushi A112. In the preface the author explains that his previous work, Oriental and western Siberia, was nothing more than 'descriptive narrative of a remote part of the globe' and that this present work is information of a more 'elevated character', intended to satisfy the geologist, botanist, ethnologist and other scientific scholars.