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New Publications

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  • Title: New Publications
  • Date: 6 March 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01314
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 6 March 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kaylen Michaelis Jamie DeRousse Jason Stacy Stephanie Blalock Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "New Publications." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.01314.xml (TEI)
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.

ORIENTAL AND WESTERN SIBERIA, a narrative of seven years' explorations and adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary and part of Central Asia, by Thomas William​ Atkinson: New York, Harper and Brothers.

This is a narrative of the wanderings of an English artist, having solely for their object the sketching of scenery scarcely at all known to Europeans, and it is one of the most entertaining and interesting books of the character yet published. In his rovings, Mr. Atkinson1 visited regions never before trodden by the foot of a European. In this respect, this traveller has achieved for civilization so far as Central Asia is concerned, what Dr. Livingston2 has with regard to Central Africa—opened up views of lands and peoples hitherto completely hidden from our knowledge. Commencing with a thorough exploration of the Ural mountains, he journeyed over the vast regions of Southern Siberia, Mongolia, the great Central plains of Asia, and Chinese Tartary, penetrating in that direction far into the Chinese Empire, at a point never before visited by Europeans. He was travelling some wight years, accomplishing in that about 39,500 miles, filling his portfolios with sketches of the grand and remarkable scenery which characterizes the mountains of Central Asia—a region of towering precipices cavernous abysses, and raging torrents—a labor of love purely on his part, but full of perilous adventure and hair breadth escapes. He describes what he had seen and what he has passed through, in a style singularly unpretentious, yet most graphic and attractive. His narrative is not less valuable as a contribution to Geography and Science, than entertaining and amusing. It is a work which we most heartily commend to the public attention.

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2. David Livingstone (1813–1873) was a Scottish physician, missionary, and a famed explorer in Africa. Whitman kept clippings from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (from 1857–1858) about Livingstone and his works in his Cultural Geography Scrapbook). [back]

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