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Siberian journey : down the Amur to the Pacific, 1856-1857 /
Perry McDonough Collins was the first American to journey through Siberia and down the 2,690-mile Amur River to the Pacific Ocean. In 1860 he wrote A Voyage Down the Amoor, an account of his adventures, and his book proved so popular that it was reissued in 1864. Siberian Journey consists of Collins...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Perry McDonough Collins was the first American to journey through Siberia and down the 2,690-mile Amur River to the Pacific Ocean. In 1860 he wrote A Voyage Down the Amoor, an account of his adventures, and his book proved so popular that it was reissued in 1864. Siberian Journey consists of Collins's original text framed by an interpretive introduction and explanatory notes by Charles Vevier, providing an extensive, first-hand account of Russia's land and its people in the mid-nineteenth century. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 370 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| ISBN: | 9780299026738 0299026736 1283485869 9781283485869 0299026744 9780299026745 |