Eastbound Through Siberia

Author : Georg Wilhelm Steller
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253047847

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Eastbound through Siberia by Georg Wilhelm Steller Pdf

In the winter of 1739, Georg Steller received word from Empress Anna of Russia that he was to embark on a secret expedition to the far reaches of Siberia as a member of the Great Northern Expedition. While searching for economic possibilities and strategic advantages, Steller was to send back descriptions of everything he saw. The Empress's instructions were detailed, from requests for a preserved whale brain to observing the child-rearing customs of local peoples, and Steller met the task with dedication, bravery, and a good measure of humor. In the name of science, Steller and his comrades confronted horse-swallowing bogs, leaped across ice floes, and survived countless close calls in their exploration of an unforgiving environment. Not stopping at lists of fishes, birds, and mammals, Steller also details the villages and the lives of those living there, from vice-governors to prostitutes. His writings rail against government corruption and the misuse of power while describing with empathy the lives of the poor and forgotten, with special attention toward Native peoples. What emerges is a remarkable window into life—both human and animal—in 18th century Siberia. Due to the secret nature of the expedition, Steller's findings were hidden in Russian archives for centuries, but the near-daily entries he recorded on journeys from the town of Irkutsk to Kamchatka are presented here in English for the first time.

Author : Henry Lansdell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:474976601

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Through Siberia by Henry Lansdell Pdf

Author : J. Stadling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:247508354

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Through Siberia by J. Stadling Pdf

Author : Colin Thubron
Publisher : Random House
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781446499504

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In Siberia by Colin Thubron Pdf

'One of the finest books about contemporary Russia' Observer This is the account of Thubron's 15,000-mile journey through an astonishing country - one twelfth of the land surface of the whole earth. He journeyed by train, river and truck among the people most damaged by the breakup of the Soviet Union, traveling among Buddhists and animists, radical Christian sects, reactionary Communists and the remnants of a so-call Jewish state; from the site of the last Czar's murder and Rasputin's village, to the ice-bound graves of ancient Sythians, to Baikal, deepest and oldest of the world's lakes. It is the story of a people moving through the ruins of Communism into more private, diverse and often stranger worlds. 'If there were a Nobel Prize for travel writing, Thubron should win it' Daily Mail

Author : Fridtjof Nansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108071499

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Through Siberia, the Land of the Future by Fridtjof Nansen Pdf

In 1913, the explorer and scientist Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) set off to find a sea route across the north of the Eurasian continent to the interior of Siberia. Published in English translation in 1914, Nansen's account remains of value to anyone interested in Siberia and its native peoples.

Author : Jonas Jonsson Stadling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Siberia (Russia)
ISBN : UOM:39015062263507

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Through Siberia by Jonas Jonsson Stadling Pdf

Author : Jonas Stadling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Siberia (Russia)
ISBN : 0700711120

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Through Siberia by Jonas Stadling Pdf

Author : J. Stadling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1333026846

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Through Siberia (Classic Reprint) by J. Stadling Pdf

Excerpt from Through Siberia Notwithstanding the fact that the world is now passing through a phase of eager geographical exploration and dis covery to which no period - not even the Elizabethan affords a parallel, there are still countries whither the traveller, be he naturalist, geographer, or sportsman, but rarely directs his steps. Siberia is one of them. The map of Africa is becoming almost as crowded with place-names as that of France, and we are steadily filling in the Arctic and even the Antarctic coast-lines, but the Land of the Tundra remains almost as unknown to Englishmen as it was in the days of Cochrane, when, eighty years ago, he set him self the astounding task of walking, baggageless and alone, from Dieppe to Kamschatka. The Treaty of Nertchinsk is a couple of centuries old, and the Russian conquerors had reached the furthest limits of the vast land even earlier, but no one now thinks of following in their footsteps. 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.

Author : Henry Lansdell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Exiles
ISBN : CORNELL:31924073030672

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Through Siberia by Henry Lansdell Pdf

Author : Henry Landsdell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Prisons
ISBN : OCLC:633798574

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Through Siberia by Henry Landsdell Pdf

Author : Lansdell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00127760

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Through Siberia by Lansdell Pdf

Author : Dervla Murphy
Publisher : John Murray Pubs Limited
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0719566649

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Through Siberia by Accident by Dervla Murphy Pdf

Through Siberia by Accident is a book about a journey that didn't happen - and what happened instead. Dervla Murphy never had any intention of spending three months in the vast territories of Siberia. Instead she had planned to go to Ussuriland, because it appealed to her as a place free from tourism. But by accident, or rather because she had an accident - a painful leg injury -, she found herself stymied in Eastern Siberia, a place she knew very little about. Although hardly able to walk, her subsequent experiences, in an unexpected place, and in an incapacitated state, provided many pleasant surprises. Above all she was struck by the extraordinary hospitality, generosity and helpfulness of the Siberians who made this strange phenomenon - a maimed Irish babushka - so welcome in their towns and homes. This book is an extraordinary story of fortitude and resourcefulness as Dervla Murphy finds friendship and culture in a seemingly monotonous, bleak and inhospitable place far from what we know as 'civilised'. Through Siberia by Accident is a voyage of Siberian self-discovery.

Author : Henry Lansdell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3348049571

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Through Siberia by Henry Lansdell Pdf

Author : John Foster Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Manchuria (China)
ISBN : OSU:32435055111744

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The Real Siberia by John Foster Fraser Pdf

Author : Ian Frazier
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1429964316

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Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier Pdf

A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great Plains In his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the storied expanse of Asiatic Russia whose grim renown is but one explanation among hundreds for the region's fascinating, enduring appeal. In Travels in Siberia, Frazier reveals Siberia's role in history—its science, economics, and politics—with great passion and enthusiasm, ensuring that we'll never think about it in the same way again. With great empathy and epic sweep, Frazier tells the stories of Siberia's most famous exiles, from the well-known—Dostoyevsky, Lenin (twice), Stalin (numerous times)—to the lesser known (like Natalie Lopukhin, banished by the empress for copying her dresses) to those who experienced unimaginable suffering in Siberian camps under the Soviet regime, forever immortalized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago. Travels in Siberia is also a unique chronicle of Russia since the end of the Soviet Union, a personal account of adventures among Russian friends and acquaintances, and, above all, a unique, captivating, totally Frazierian take on what he calls the "amazingness" of Russia—a country that, for all its tragic history, somehow still manages to be funny. Travels in Siberia will undoubtedly take its place as one of the twenty-first century's indispensable contributions to the travel-writing genre.