Through Siberia, the Land of the Future
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- Author: Fridtjof Nansen
- Translator: Arthur G. Chater
- Date Published: April 2014
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108071499
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In August 1913, the explorer and scientist Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930), who later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, set off from Norway to find a sea route across the north of the Eurasian continent. This 'north-east passage' had been the goal of explorers since the sixteenth century, but Nansen's object, as he puts it, was 'to open up a regular trade connexion with the interior of Siberia, via the Kara Sea and the mouth of the Yenisei'. By the time the book was published in English translation in 1914, the First World War had begun, and the need for ways to keep supplies and troops moving between Russia and her western allies made it even more timely. Nansen's delightfully written account of 'the land of the future' remains of value to anyone seeking to find out more about the geography, resources, and native peoples of Siberia.
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- Date Published: April 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108071499
- length: 602 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 170 x 31 mm
- weight: 0.95kg
- contains: 95 b/w illus. 3 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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1. From Norway to the Kara Sea
2. Visits from Samoyedes
3. Through the ice northward along Yamal
4. Open sea, eastward to the Yenisei
5. Nosonovski Pesok and the Samoyedes
6. Waiting to go on
7. Up the Yenisei
8. Dudinka to the Kureika
9. Troitskiy Monastir, and on to the south
10. Verkhne-Imbatskoye to Sumarokova
11. From Sumarokova to Yeniseisk
12. Yeniseisk to Krasnoyarsk and beyond
13. The colonisation and development of Siberia
14. Irkutsk to Vladivostok
15. The Ussuri region, Vladivostok and Khabarovsk
16. Russia in the east
17. The Amur district and the Amur railway
18. From the Bureya to Transbaikalia
19. Homeward through Siberia
Appendix
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