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THIS book, as its writer says, is merely “a plain record of a year's wanderings in the lesser known parts of Central Asia for the purpose of sport and travel.” Its author had eyes for little else than Ovis Karelini. From “Across the Roof of the World.” the quest of large game for the sake of their heads as trophies. Of the country through which he passed or of its people, he tells us little, and nothing at all of its other fauna or its flora, and of many of the topics of human and scientific interest which the general reader expects to find in travel-books of little-known regions. Even in regard to the large game themselves the bald narrative provides no new facts nor any intimate study of the animals or their haunts. The photographs of the heads, however, are of some interest, as the specimens hitherto figured are not numerous and the limits of several of the species are not yet clearly defined. The account of the camp outfit also rnav supply some useful hints to sportsmen who contemplate an excursion in those regions.
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"Across the Roof of the World". —A Record of Sport and Travel through Kashmir, Gilgit, Hunza, the Pamirs, Chinese Turkistan, Mongolia and Siberia. By Lieut P. T. Etherton. . Pp xvi + 437. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1911). Price 16s. net.
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Sport and Travel in Central Asia 1 . Nature 86, 388 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086388a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/086388a0