The list of illustrations has been added in the electronic text.
The following typographical errors have been corrected:
page 82, period changed to comma (after “was”)
page 140, “Siberan” changed to “Siberian”
Inconsistent hyphenation (_e. g._ “footsteps” and “foot-steps”,
“innkeeper” and “inn-keeper”, “moonlight” and “moon-light”, “pigtails” and
“pig-tails”, “wickerwork” and “wicker-work”), punctuation or italicizing
has not been changed. The authors use both “Yengiz” and “Yenghiz”,
“bakshish” and “baksheesh”, “pilaff” and “pillao”.