The Real Siberia
Title | The Real Siberia PDF eBook |
Author | John Foster Fraser |
Publisher | |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | Manchuria (China) |
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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.
The Real Siberia
Title | The Real Siberia PDF eBook |
Author | John Foster Fraser |
Publisher | |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Manchuria (China) |
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The Real Siberia
Title | The Real Siberia PDF eBook |
Author | John Foster Fraser |
Publisher | Forgotten Books |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2017-10-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780265246412 |
Excerpt from The Real Siberia: Together With an Account of a Dash Through Manchuria This volume lays claim to give nothing more than personal impressions of a journey made across Siberia and through Manchuria in the autumn of 1901. I went to Siberia on a mission of curiosity, with the average Britisher's prejudice against things Russian, and with my eyes wide open to see things I might criticise and even condemn. If, however, I found little to bless in the great land beyond the Urals, I also found very little to curse. Through generations there has grown up in the public mind the idea that Siberia is a land of snow and exiles. There is much that is thrilling in stories of innocent prisoners, weary and starving, being driven through blinding storms with the whips of brute officials to urge them on. Yet the public, I am afraid, rather like that sort of thing, and a succession of writers have ministered to their appetite for sensa tion. So only one phase of Siberian life - a slight and a passing phase - has been depicted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Travels in Siberia
Title | Travels in Siberia PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Frazier |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 541 |
Release | 2010-10-12 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1429964316 |
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.
The Real Siberia
Title | The Real Siberia PDF eBook |
Author | John Foster Fraser |
Publisher | |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 1912 |
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Tent Life in Siberia
Title | Tent Life in Siberia PDF eBook |
Author | George Kennan |
Publisher | Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Pages | 447 |
Release | 2007-03-17 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1602390452 |
George Kennan tells the story of his expedition through the Siberian wilderness with a small team of explorers.
The Real Siberia
Title | The Real Siberia PDF eBook |
Author | John Foster Fraser |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | Manchuria (China) |
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