Vagabond Causasus

Author : Stephen Graham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317845997

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Vagabond Causasus by Stephen Graham Pdf

First published in 2006. This book by Stephen Graham is a supremely unique take on travel through Russia and the Caucasus. Graham takes to the road in a modest fashion, with a bag and his camera at his side. As he arrives in Moscow not long after the Russian Revolution in 1917 he is not welcomed with open arms. Instead, Graham is greeted by a group of soldiers as he walks down the street and is arrested. He recounts this experience, as well as every moment of his time spent 'vagabonding' across the Caucasus with glorious detail. His photographs to accompany the text capture the fleeting moments of this politically heated time in Russia with candid accuracy. This momentous work is not to be overlooked by anyone interested in travel or history, or anyone with a taste for an unconventional account of the land of the Caucasus.

Author : Stephen Graham
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547642749

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A Vagabond in the Caucasus. With Some Notes of His Experiences Among the Russians by Stephen Graham Pdf

"A Vagabond in the Caucasus. With Some Notes of His Experiences Among the Russians" by Stephen Graham. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : George Kennan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295803364

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Vagabond Life by George Kennan Pdf

George Kennan (1845-1924) was a pioneering explorer, writer, and lecturer on Russia in the nineteenth century, the author of classic works such as Tent Life in Siberia and Siberia and the Exile System, and great-uncle of George Frost Kennan, the noted historian and diplomat of the Cold War. In 1870, Kennan became the first American to explore the highlands of Dagestan, a remote Muslim region of herders, silversmiths, carpet-weavers, and other craftsmen southeast of Chechnya, only a decade after Russia violently absorbed the region into its empire. He kept detailed journals of his adventures, which today form a small part of his voluminous archive in the Library of Congress. Frith Maier has combined the diaries with selected letters and Kennan’s published articles on the Caucasus to create a vivid narrative of his six-month odyssey. The journals have been organized into three parts. The first covers Kennan’s journey to the Caucasus, a significant feat in itself. The second chronicles his expedition across the main Caucasus Ridge with the Georgian nobleman Prince Jorjadze. In the final part, Kennan circles back through the lands of Chechnya to slip once again into the Dagestan highlands. Kennan’s remarkable curiosity and perception come through in this lively and accessible narrative, as does his humor at the challenges of his travels. In her introduction, Maier discusses Kennan’s illustrious career and his reliability as an observer, while providing background on the Caucasus to help clarify Kennan’s descriptions of daily life, religion, etiquette, customary law, and local government. In an Afterword, she retraces Kennan’s steps to find descendants of Prince Jorjadze and describes her work in coproducing, with filmmaker Christopher Allingham, a documentary inspired by Kennan’s Caucasus journey.

Author : STEPHEN. GRAHAM
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103358665X

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VAGABOND IN THE CAUCASUS by STEPHEN. GRAHAM Pdf

Author : Stephen Graham
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0266178839

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A Vagabond in the Caucasus by Stephen Graham Pdf

Excerpt from A Vagabond in the Caucasus: With Some Notes of His Experiences Among the Russians But of course both sentences are true; one is for one nature, the other for another; I think I must have really belonged to the second category, for have I not become a tramp! 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 : S. Graham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1342111502

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Vagabond in the Caucasus by S. Graham Pdf

Author : BiblioBazaar,Graham Stephen 1884-
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1355614821

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A Vagabond in the Caucasus; With Some Notes of His Experiences Among the Russians by BiblioBazaar,Graham Stephen 1884- Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Stephen Graham
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1341291936

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A Vagabond in the Caucasus by Stephen Graham Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Stephen 1884 Graham
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1372049517

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VAGABOND IN THE CAUCASUS W/SOM by Stephen 1884 Graham Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : George Gissing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:651886238

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A Vagabond in the Caucasus by George Gissing Pdf

Author : Gregory J. Wallance
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250280060

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Into Siberia by Gregory J. Wallance Pdf

"In Wallance’s bracing narrative, Kennan emerges as a cheerful, deeply decent companion, an uncompromising observer whose greatest strength was his ability to change his mind. He’s a welcome change from the callous imperialists who people most Victorian travelogues, and his humanity allows Into Siberia to delve into horror without succumbing to despair." — The New York Times Book Review In a book that ranks with the greatest adventure stories, Gregory Wallance’s Into Siberia is a thrilling work of history about one man’s harrowing journey and the light it shone on some of history’s most heinous human rights abuses. In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent. Over ten months Kennan traveled eight thousand miles, mostly in horse-drawn carriages, sleighs or on horseback. He endured suffocating sandstorms in the summer and blizzards in the winter. His interviews with convicts and political exiles revealed how Russia ran on the fuel of inflicted pain and fear. Prisoners in the mines were chained day and night to their wheelbarrows as punishment. Babies in exile parties froze to death in their mothers’ arms. Kennan came to call the exiles’ experience in Siberia a “perfect hell of misery.” After returning to the United States, Kennan set out to generate public outrage over the plight of the exiles, writing the renowned Siberia and the Exile System. He then went on a nine-year lecture tour to describe the suffering of the Siberian exiles, intensifying the newly emerging diplomatic conflicts between the two countries which last to this day.

Author : Owen Clayton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009348034

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Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos by Owen Clayton Pdf

This book explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around the terms 'hobo', 'tramp', and 'vagabond'.

Author : Michael Hughes
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783740123

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Beyond Holy Russia by Michael Hughes Pdf

This biography examines the long life of the traveller and author Stephen Graham. Graham walked across large parts of the Tsarist Empire in the years before 1917, describing his adventures in a series of books and articles that helped to shape attitudes towards Russia in Britain and the United States. In later years he travelled widely across Europe and North America, meeting some of the best known writers of the twentieth century, including H.G.Wells and Ernest Hemingway. Graham also wrote numerous novels and biographies that won him a wide readership on both sides of the Atlantic. This book traces Graham’s career as a world traveller, and provides a rich portrait of English, Russian and American literary life in the first half of the twentieth century. It also examines how many aspects of his life and writing coincide with contemporary concerns, including the development of New Age spirituality and the rise of environmental awareness. Beyond Holy Russia is based on extensive research in archives of private papers in Britain and the USA and on the many works of Graham himself. The author describes with admirable tact and clarity Graham’s heterodox and convoluted spiritual quest. The result is a fascinating portrait of a man who was for many years a significant literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : Rebecca Beasley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192522481

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Russomania by Rebecca Beasley Pdf

Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism provides a new account of modernist literature's emergence in Britain. British writers played a central role in the dissemination of Russian literature and culture during the early twentieth century, and their writing was transformed by the encounter. This study restores the thick history of that moment, by analyzing networks of dissemination and reception to recover the role of neglected as well as canonical figures, and institutions as well as individuals. The dominant account of British modernism privileges a Francophile genealogy, but the turn-of-the century debate about the future of British writing was a triangular debate, a debate not only between French and English models, but between French, English, and Russian models. Francophile modernists associated Russian literature, especially the Tolstoyan novel, with an uncritical immersion in 'life' at the expense of a mastery of style, and while individual works might be admired, Russian literature as a whole was represented as a dangerous model for British writing. This supposed danger was closely bound up with the politics of the period, and this book investigates how Russian culture was deployed in the close relationships between writers, editors, and politicians who made up the early twentieth-century intellectual class—the British intelligentsia. Russomania argues that the most significant impact of Russian culture is not to be found in stylistic borrowings between canonical authors, but in the shaping of the major intellectual questions of the period: the relation between language and action, writer and audience, and the work of art and lived experience. The resulting account brings an occluded genealogy of early modernism to the fore, with a different arrangement of protagonists, different critical values, and stronger lines of connection to the realist experiments of the Victorian past, and the anti-formalism and revived romanticism of the 1930s and 1940s future.

Author : Marshall Cavendish
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 1712 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0761475710

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World and Its Peoples by Marshall Cavendish Pdf

An eleven-volume guide to the geography, history, economy, government, culture and daily life of countries of the Middle East, western Asia and northern Africa.