Excerpt from Vassili Verestchagin, Vol. 1 of 2: Painter Soldier Traveler, Autobiographical Sketches; Translated From German and the French As it would take too long to give a complete account of all my travels, I have selected certain characteristic episodes here and there from my recollections and put them together in a book of sketches about the Caucasus, Central Asia, India, &c. The reader must understand that this is but a collection of notes Without any. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.