Eastbound Through Siberia

Author : Georg Wilhelm Steller
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253047846
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eastbound through Siberia written by Georg Wilhelm Steller and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jonas Jonsson Stadling
Publisher : [London] : A. Constable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.HH/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Siberia written by Jonas Jonsson Stadling and published by [London] : A. Constable. This book was released on 1901 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Kotkin
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9781563245466
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering Russia in Asia written by Stephen Kotkin and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1995 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1581 a Cossack raider crossed the Ural Mountains to plunder and claim for Tsar Ivan IV the land called "Sibir" by its Tatar inhabitants. Within half a century, Moscow's reach would extend nearly six thousand miles to the east. Thus Russia has a long history as part of Asia. Does it have a future there as well? Rediscovering Russia in Asia takes the reader on a trans-Siberian expedition to encounter the peoples, cultures, and riches of Russia's eastern expanses. The expert guides are scholars with the language skills and the sense of adventure to explore a "crossroads of civilizations" at long last reopened to the world.

Author : John Foster Fraser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Siberia written by John Foster Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of the author's personal impressions of a journey across Siberia and through Manchuria in the autumn of 1901. He endeavours to show that the Siberia of convicts and prisons is passing away, and the Siberia of the reaping mahcine, the gold drill, the timber yard, and the booming, flourishing new town is awakening into life. -- Foreword.

Author : Henry Lansdell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Siberia written by Henry Lansdell and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Lansdell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108071228
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Siberia written by Henry Lansdell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglican missionary Henry Lansdell (1841-1919) published this popular two-volume account of his travels through Russia and Siberia in 1882.

Author : Dioneo
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016385381
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Far North-East Siberia written by Dioneo and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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. 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 : Alan Wood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000788938
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Siberia written by Alan Wood and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987, Siberia examines the developments in the different sectors of Siberian economy and discusses the role of this vast and little-known region in the Soviet Union’s overall economic and defence strategy. It surveys historical developments and the geography of the region and focuses on the key problem areas such as manpower shortage, the difficulties involved in exploiting the territory’s natural resources, internal communications – including the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway in the Far East- and considers Siberia’s place in the context of international relations and the world economy. This book is a must read for scholars of Russian history, Russian geopolitics, European politics, international relations and European history.

Author : Dioneo
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290868990
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Far North-East Siberia written by Dioneo and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Ian Frazier
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9781429964319
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels in Siberia written by Ian Frazier and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.