The Man Who Loved Siberia

Informationen zum Autor Roy Jacobsen has twice been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literary Award: for Seierherren e in 1991, and Frost in 2003, and in 2009 he was shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Award for his novel T he Burnt-Out Town of Miracles . The Unseen , the first in a bestselling historial series, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017 Klappentext A first-hand account of 19th century adventure and exploration, translated into English for the first time Vorwort A first-hand account of 19th century adventure and exploration, translated into English for the first time Zusammenfassung Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land. Fritz Dörries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when there were still blank spaces on maps of the world. Travelling alone or with his brothers, he climbed mountains, traversed great rivers, explored remote islands and crossed treacherous lakes of ice, always with one purpose: to augment man's knowledge of the natural world. Bears, tigers, vipers, bandits, stormy seas, frostbite, ice chasms fathoms deep - every danger was faced head on and overcome. And yet he remained defenceless against the charms of the landscape, and the animals, birds and butterflies he found there. Through his twenty-two years in Siberia, Dörries collected a wealth of essential material for scientific institutions, fundamental to our understanding of fauna and flora. This account of his adventures, set down for his daughters in his ninetieth year, and adapted for publication by Roy Jacobsen and Anneliese Pitz, is his second great legacy. Translated from the Norwegian by Seán Kinsella

Product details

• Authors: Roy Jacobsen, Jacobsen Roy, Anneliese Pitz
• Assisted by: Sean Kinsella (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.09.2024
• EAN: 9781529413052
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-1305-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 194 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; TRAVEL / Special Interest / Ecotourism, Biography: historical, political & military, SPORTS & RECREATION / Hunting, NATURE / Animals / Butterflies & Moths, Arctic regions, Biography: adventurers and explorers, Siberia, Hunting or shooting animals and game