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Fur-Clad Adventurers: Or, Travels in Skin-Canoes, on Dog-Sledges, on Reindeer, and on Snow-Shoes, through Alaska, Kamchatka, and Eastern Siberia (Cambridge Library Collection – Travel and Exploration) Review
Fur-Clad Adventurers: Or, Travels in Skin-Canoes, on Dog-Sledges, on Reindeer, and on Snow-Shoes, through Alaska, Kamchatka, and Eastern Siberia (Cambridge Library Collection – Travel and Exploration) Overview
Z. A. Mudge (1813-88) was an American pastor, author and Arctic exploration enthusiast. After the success of his popular books North Pole Voyages and Arctic Heroes, he wrote this book on the Western Union Telegraph Expedition. In the mid-nineteenth century the Western Union Telegraph Company decided to create a telegraph line that would run from San Francisco, California to Moscow, Russia. The line was to run through Alaska and Siberia, and although the project was abandoned in 1867, a large amount of Arctic exploration had been achieved in the meantime. This book, first published in 1880, is Mudge’s compilation of the accounts of some of the explorers who were involved in different stages of the expedition, including the naturalist W. H. Dall during his exploration in Alaska. Mudge goes on to include the Siberian experiences of George Kennan and W. H. Bush (whose own account is also reissued in this series).
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Paddling Through an Enigma: Whitewater and Mountain Journeys in Siberia and Middle Asia
by admin on Mar.22, 2012, under Travels In Siberia
Paddling Through an Enigma: Whitewater and Mountain Journeys in Siberia and Middle Asia
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This is a narrative of three whitewater kayaking and mountain trekking trips to Siberia and Central Asia. In 1993, not long after the Iron Curtain rose, the author went to Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Central Asia on a white water kayaking expedition. The exciting white water and the stark beauty of these countries captivated him and their vivid, turbulent, and often tragic history intrigued him. That history continued to evolve while he was there, as people struggled to adapt to new regimes. In 1997, he returned to Kirghizia and Kazakhstan on a similar trip and in 2,000 he went to Tuva, a semi-autonomous republic in southern Siberia.
The narrative of the physical adventure is interwoven with an account of the author’s exploration of Russian and Central Asian history and culture. Unwrapping the enigma of Russia leads to both conflict and joy as the Australian adventurers engage with the different approaches and attitudes of their Russian comrades.
This is a narrative of three whitewater kayaking and mountain trekking trips to Siberia and Central Asia. In 1993, not long after the Iron Curtain rose, the author went to Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Central Asia on a white water kayaking expedition. The exciting white water and the stark beauty of these countries captivated him and their vivid, turbulent, and often tragic history intrigued him. That history continued to evolve while he was there, as people struggled to adapt to new regimes. In 1997, he returned to Kirghizia and Kazakhstan on a similar trip and in 2,000 he went to Tuva, a semi-autonomous republic in southern Siberia.
The narrative of the physical adventure is interwoven with an account of the author’s exploration of Russian and Central Asian history and culture. Unwrapping the enigma of Russia leads to both conflict and joy as the Australian adventurers engage with the different approaches and attitudes of their Russian comrades.
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Tent Life in Siberia
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This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.
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In Siberia
by admin on Feb.06, 2012, under Travels In Siberia
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As mysterious as its beautiful, as forbidding as it is populated with warm-hearted people, Syberia is a land few Westerners know, and even fewer will ever visit. Traveling alone, by train, boat, car, and on foot, Colin Thubron traversed this vast territory, talking to everyone he encountered about the state of the beauty, whose natural resources have been savagely exploited for decades; a terrain tainted by nuclear waste but filled with citizens who both welcomed him and fed him—despite their own tragic poverty. From Mongoloia to the Artic Circle, from Rasputin’s village in the west through tundra, taiga, mountains, lakes, rivers, and finally to a derelict Jewish community in the country’s far eastern reaches, Colin Thubron penetrates a little-understood part of the world in a way that no writer ever has. |
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In Siberia explores a region of astonishments, where “white cranes dance on the permafrost, where a great city floats lost among the ice floes, where mammoths sleep under glaciers.” Colin Thubron’s latest chronicle also delivers its subject from rumor into reality. An expanse larger than the entire United States, Siberia is undoubtedly a country of contrasts, which elicits from the author both awe and melancholy. Here on one hand is a northern wilderness “shattered into a jigsaw of ponds and streams,” and on the other a “black detritus of factories and ruins.” No less memorable than the landscape are the people that Thubron encounters. He gathers their stories like rough jewels, showing us a self-proclaimed descendant of Rasputin, an isolated Jewish community, and a parade of “indestructible babushkas.”
Woven among the often bitter and eroding memories of a Siberian past is a sense of new freedom. After all, this is the first time in Russia’s history when foreigners can travel freely throughout the region–and its inhabitants can comment openly about their government without fear of reprisal. Thubron coaxes an institute official at the Akademgorodok Praesidium to speak his mind: His face was heavy with anger. “We have one overriding problem here. Money. We receive no money for new equipment, hardly enough for our salaries. There are people who haven’t been paid for six months.” Then his anger overflowed. He was barking like a drill sergeant. “This year we requested funds for six or seven different programmes! And not one has been accepted by the government! Not one!” Thubron’s portrait is as elegant as it is evocative. But just as notably, his journey to the east manages to break the long and destructive Siberian silence. –Byron Ricks …Read more |
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Tent Life in Siberia: An Incredible Account of Siberian Adventure, Travel, and Survival
by admin on Feb.03, 2012, under Travels In Siberia
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