Incidentally, if you want to buy a copy of South to the Great Steppe, you can do so here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/South-Great-Steppe-Kazakhstan-1847-1852/dp/0954640993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452075528&sr=8-1&keywords=south+to+the+great+steppe

Following the launch of the book at the Royal Geographical Society in Central London in November, I have given a number of illustrated talks. Venues covered include The Travellers’ Club, Bernard Shapero Rare Books, Mossbourne Community Academy in Hackney, East London and Jesus College, Cambridge. More talks are planned and I will post details for anyone who wants to attend. If you would like to hear me talk at one of your events, please get in touch.

Our good friend Vladimir Nikolaevich Proskurin, writing from Berlin, has published an excellent article on South to the Great Steppe and my research in Kazakhstan. Proskurin himself was one of the first Kazakhs to recognise the significance of the Atkinsons in the history of his country. You can find his article here: https://www.скс.kz/biblioteka/90-v-kopale-syuzhetov-ni-malo.html.