Ivan Nikolaevich Akifâ ev

To the Far North

Diary of a Russian World Traveler
Übersetzer: Gentes, Andrew A.

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Produktbeschreibung

"An annotated translation of a diary written by a Russian doctor who was a physician with the 1900 Chukotka Expedition to find gold, and it includes an account of the diarist's visit to the United States and Alaska, as well as Western Europe and Japan"--

Produktdetails

• NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 151mm x 229mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9781501774614
• ISBN-10: 1501774611
• Artikelnr.: 69939138

Autorenporträt

Andrew A. Gentes is a historian and translator. He earned his doctorate in Russian history from Brown University. He is the author of Russia's Sakhalin Penal Colony, 1849-1917 and the translator of Eight Years on Sakhalin by Ivan Iuvachëv, among other works.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. From Petersburg to New York
2. In America
3. In the Great Ocean
4. On the Chukotka Peninsula Coast
5. Alaska
6. Along the Chukotka Peninsula Coast
7. Our Arrest in Nome
8. Release from Captivity
9. Sakhalin
10. From Sakhalin to Vladivostok
11. Japan
Afterword