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Lansdell, Henry

Through Siberia

1882

173,90 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1882
Lugar de impresión
Boston. Houghton, Mifflin and Co.
Autor
Lansdell, Henry
Edición
third edition, and first edition in one volume.
Materia
Travel - Asia
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

thick 8vo [22 x 15 cm]; xxiv, 809, [iv, ads] pp, frontis of gold mine and washing house on heavier paper, tissue guard, 16 plates, plus other illustrations from drwgs, tables, folding map showing author's route in red, bibliog, index. orig pictorial cloth, title lettering in gilt on spine & silver on cover, small tear at joint end, edges bit rubbed, association copy with bookplate of Joseph Francis Fletcher, professor of Chinese Asian History, interior fine & clean, cover very good. A A narrative of the author's extensive travels across Europe, the Urals, Tiumen, to Tobolsk, describing Siberian prisons, the exiles, the Obi, to Tobolsk, Tomsk, Barnaui, Krasnoiarsk, Yenesei, gold and sliver mines, Krasnoiarsk, Alexandreffsky, Irkutsk, the Lena, Yakutsk, Lake Baikal, Troitzkosavsk, Kiakhta, Mongolian frontier, Chita, the Buriats, Nertchinsk, Stretinsk, Kara, Shilka, the Amur, Primorsk, Gilyaks, Nikolaefsk, Kamchatka, island of Sakhalin, Ussuri, Sungacha, lake Khanka, Vladivostock, the Russian navy, etc, with seven appendices including on Russian church, discoveries of Wiggins and Nordenskjold, early exploration, the author's itinerary.
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