Across the Ussuri Kray : Travels in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains /

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In Russia's Far East sits the wild Ussuri Kray, a region known for its remote highlands and rugged mountain passes where tigers and bears roam the cliffs, and salmon and lenok navigate the rivers. In this collection of travel writing by famed Russian explorer and naturalist Vladimir K. Arsenyev...

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Auteur principal: Arsenʹev, V. K. (Vladimir Klavdievich), 1872-1930 (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Slaght, Jonathan C. (Traducteur, Annotateur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Ruso
Publié: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Dersu Uzala.
Arsenʹev, V. K. > (Vladimir Klavdievich), > 1872-1930.
Arsenʹev, V. K. > (Vladimir Klavdievich), > 1872-1930 > Travel > Ussuri River Valley (Russia and China)
Travel.
Natural history.
TRAVEL > Asia > General.
Sciences naturelles > Oussouri, Vallee de l' (Russie et Chine)
Natural history > Ussuri River Valley (Russia and China)
Asia > Ussuri River Valley.
Oussouri, Vallee de l' (Russie et Chine) > Descriptions et voyages.
Ussuri River Valley (Russia and China) > Description and travel.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:In Russia's Far East sits the wild Ussuri Kray, a region known for its remote highlands and rugged mountain passes where tigers and bears roam the cliffs, and salmon and lenok navigate the rivers. In this collection of travel writing by famed Russian explorer and naturalist Vladimir K. Arsenyev (1872-1930), readers are shuttled back to the turn of the 20th century when the Russian Empire was reeling from its defeat in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) and vulnerable to its Far Eastern neighbors. What began as an expedition to survey the region's infrastructure for the Russian military turned into an adventure through a territory rich in ethnic and ecological diversity. Encountering the disappearing indigenous cultures of the Nanai and Udege, engaging the help of Korean farmers and Chinese hunters, and witnessing the beginning of indomitable Russian settlement, Arsenyev documents the lives and customs of the region's inhabitants and their surroundings. Originally written as "a popular scientific description of the Kray," this unabridged edition includes photographs largely unseen for nearly a century and is annotated by Jonathan C. Slaght, a biologist working in the same forests Arsenyev explored. Across the Ussuri Kray is a classic of northeast Asian cultural and natural history.
Description:Translated from the Russian.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (488 pages).
ISBN:9780253022196

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