Asia, Vol. 2

Excerpt from Asia, Vol. 2: Southern and Western Asia
During the second half of the dying century the African Continent may be said to have enjoyed a monopoly of public interest. So rapid and marvellous have been the developments, both geographical and political, witnessed in that region, that it almost needed the "Armenian atrocities" to recall attention to the scarcely less thrilling and in some respects even more important events that have taken place in the neighbouring continent of Asia since the appearance of the first edition of this work in 1882. In less than two decades, geographical and political movements have yielded such an abundance of fresh materials as to require the expansion of that bulky volume of over 750 pages into two of about 550 pages each for the new issue of this series.
Those who have not followed the progress of recent geographical research in Asia will have some difficulty in realising the vast amount of work accomplished in this direction by a class of explorers distinguished beyond most of the African pioneers by a more scientific training and a more thorough equipment for their arduous labours. That so much should still remain to be done in a region occupied from remote times mainly by Caucasic and Mongolic peoples far removed from the savage state may perhaps cause some surprise.
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