John Dundas Cochrane

Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey Through Russia and Siberian Tartary

From the Frontiers of China to the Frozen Sea and Kamtchatka

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Produktbeschreibung

This 1824 account of Cochrane's travels across Europe, Russia and Siberia is full of interesting anecdotes and observations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 590
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 822g
• ISBN-13: 9781108072267
• ISBN-10: 1108072267
• Artikelnr.: 40580674

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Motives for undertaking the journey
2. Angermunde
3. St Petersburg
4. The Volga
5. Brief history of western Siberia
6. Irkutsk
7. Nishney Kolymsk
8. Departure from the Kolyma
9. Reasons for determining to return to Europe
10. Departure from St Peter and St Paul's
11. General observations on the peninsula of Kamchatka
12. Departure from Kamchatka
13. Departure from Yakutsk
14. Verchney Udinsk
15. Kiakhta
16. Omsk
Conclusion.