Fridtjof Nansen

Through Siberia, the Land of the Future

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Produktbeschreibung

Published in English in 1914, Nansen's travel narrative remains of value to anyone interested in Siberia and its native peoples.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 602
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1024g
• ISBN-13: 9781108071499
• ISBN-10: 110807149X
• Artikelnr.: 40722644

Autorenporträt

Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanitarian. He led the team that made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, traversing the island on cross-country skis.

Inhaltsangabe

Publisher's note
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
Index.