Reindeer, Dogs, and Snow-Shoes - A Journal of Siberian Travel Explorations Made in Years 1865, 1866

Klappentext A journal of exploration and travels in the Kamchatka Peninsula undertaken as part of the 1865-7 Russo-American Telegraph Expedition. Zusammenfassung Bush's engaging and beautifully illustrated, journal of exploration in the Kamchatka Peninsula was first published in 1871. His travels were undertaken as a member of the 1865–7 Russo-American Telegraph Expedition, which planned to lay cable from San Francisco to Moscow via Russian America (now Alaska) and Siberia. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Object of the expedition; 2. Major Abasa's plan; 3. Good-by; 4. At Tedervosk; 5. Kada; 6. Nikolayefsk; 7. Departure from Nikolayefsk; 8. Packing up; 9. En route; 10.Approaching Tugur; 11. Approaching Solavaoff's; 12. Swartz's blunder; 13. Russian steam bath; 14. A Russian parting; 15. Indications of a poorga; 16. Remarkable endurance of natives; 17. Our good fortune; 18. Anxiety to start; 19. Alarming considerations; 20. Herding deer; 21. Another journey; 22. Tausk; 23. Departure from Toumane; 24. Departure from Ghijigha; 25. More tundra; 26. Crepast; 27. Proposed voyage; 28. From Oochostika; 29. Life at Camp Macrae; 30. Anxiety; 31. Telegraph-building under difficulties; 32. Zeal of the men; 33. Down the Myan in a carbass; Meteorological tables.

Product details

• Authors: Richard James Bush, Bush Richard James
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2012
• EAN: 9781108049740
• ISBN: 978-1-108-04974-0
• No. of pages: 536
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Russia, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure, Expeditions, TRAVEL / Russia, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Expeditions: popular accounts, Geographical discovery & exploration, Geographical discovery and exploration, HISTORY / Russia / Imperial