Second edition. 8vo. pp xiv, 313, 32 (ads). Frontis map present. Original decorated cloth, recently rebacked, original spine laid down, original endpapers retained. Cloth rather marked, but a sound clean copy otherwise of this interesting work. There is an amusing inscription to the front fly-leaf; To the author, from his affte sister. TW Barkley, who finds he is a stranger to his own books having long ago been relieved[?] of every copy by his friends! The Close, Norwich Nove 6th/96. An interesting work, which gives a vivid impression of life as a field engineer in the Ottoman Balkans during the second half of the nineteenth century, including many detailed descriptions of game shooting.