Two Summers irt the lee-Wilde of Eastern Karalconsm : the
Es-plow:lien of 1,90.0 Square Miles of Mountain and Glacier. By
Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman. With 3 Maps and 141 Illustrations by the Authors. (T. Maher Unwin. 25s. net.)—Mr. and Mrs. Workman had already made six Himalayan expeditions and given the results to the world. This is the record of their seventh and eighth, and the territory covered had been little explored before their bold visit. The ieefields of Karakoram lie beyond the Himalayas, and extend up to the watershed between Central Asia and India. They are the most extensive fields of ice outside the Polar Regions, and are extremely difficult to get at. Much expense and patient organization have to be lavished upon an expedition before it can safely penetrate into their fastnesses. The explorations were made in 1911 and 1912, but the publication of the results has been delayed by the war. We have them now in a sumptuous form, and with a fullness of detail which adds sub- stantially to the world's knowledge of an almost virgin region.
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