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Oliphant, Laurence
(b. 1829; d. 1888). “A Journey to Katmandhu,” “The Russian Shores of the Black Sea” (1853); “Minnesota and the Far West” (1855); “The Transcaucasian Campaign under Omar Pasha” (1856); “Earl of Elgin’s Mission to China and Japan in 1857–59” (1860); “Patriots and Filibusters” (1861); “Incidents of Travel;” “Piccadilly” (1870); “Land of Gilead” (1881); “Tracts and Travesties” (1882); “Altiora Peto” (1883); “Sympneumata” (1885); “Episodes in a Life of Adventure” (1887). Memoir by Mrs. Margaret Oliphant (1891).
