Travels in Kamtchatka and Siberia
Travels in Kamtchatka and Siberia

Author: Peter Dobell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-03-20

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 110807085X

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Published in 1830, this lively two-volume account of travels in Russia and China includes observations on the peoples and cultures.

Travels in Kamtchatka and Siberia
Travels in Kamtchatka and Siberia

Author: Peter Dobell

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781020371660

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This book is a firsthand account of Dobell's travels in Kamchatka and Siberia, including his descriptions of the local flora and fauna, as well as the lifestyle of the indigenous people. The book also includes a narrative of his residence in China, detailing his observations of Chinese culture and customs. 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.

Travels in Siberia
Travels in Siberia

Author: Ian Frazier

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2010-10-12

Total Pages: 541

ISBN-13: 1429964316

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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.