Tent Life in Siberia
Tent Life in Siberia

Author: George Kennan

Publisher: Skyhorse

Published: 2016-01-12

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9781634502856

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“An incredible adventure story. A real classic.” —Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek In the 1860s, the Russian-American Telegraph Company set out to telegraphically connect the United States and Europe using lines running through the Bering Strait and Siberia. The failed expedition marked one of the first explorations of the vast Siberian wilderness, and George Kennan’s tale of a seemingly endless land filled with wildlife and nomadic tribes is as entertaining today as it was 140 years ago. With biting humor and poignant insight, Kennan details his years fighting to survive a doomed mission. He depicts the quiet loneliness of the desolate landscape, the eerie glow of the sun at midnight, and the refusal to give in to one of the harshest places man has ever tried to conquer. His book is a testament to our planet’s beauty and danger, as well as to the tireless will of the human spirit.

Tent Life in Siberia
Tent Life in Siberia

Author: George Kennan

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-26

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13:

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Tent Life in Siberia is a personal account of the life and travels of George Kennan in Siberia. Kennan explores Siberia to find a means by which a telegraph line might travel without interruption. Excerpt: "The attempt which was made by the Western Union Telegraph Company, in 1865-66 and 67, to build an overland line to Europe via Alaska, Bering Strait, and Siberia, was in some respects the most remarkable undertaking of the nineteenth century. Bold in its conception, and important in the ends at which it aimed, it attracted at one time the attention of the whole civilized world, and was regarded as the greatest telegraphic enterprise which had ever engaged American capital..."

Tent Life in Siberia
Tent Life in Siberia

Author: George Kennan

Publisher:

Published: 2020-04-22

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780461788877

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Tent Life in Siberia, and Adventures Among the Koraks and Other Tribes in Kamtchatka and Northern Asia - Scholar's Choice Edition
Tent Life in Siberia, and Adventures Among the Koraks and Other Tribes in Kamtchatka and Northern Asia - Scholar's Choice Edition

Author: George Kennan

Publisher:

Published: 2015-02-12

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9781295980451

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