Title: Through unexplored Asia, by William Jameson Reid IIllustrated by L. J. Bridgman
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. [14], [11]-499, including illustrations and plates. Original cloth. Includes frontispiece entitled “Mongol of Koko-Nor,” three folding maps in pocket.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Largely fabricated travels in Asia with a certain Burton between 1893 and 1894 by the American William Jameson Reid, not his first attempt at misleading readers with his supposed adventures in remote corners of the world. Reid’s fake travelogue was immediately exposed by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_1791244" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>