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Title: Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan ISBN: 0-89875-598-0 Publisher: University Press of the Pacific Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating, humorous, great read.
Comment: I couldn't put this book down. On a par with Shackleton's story. Well written, fascinating account of a two year Siberian expedition in the mid 1800s.
Rating: 4
Summary: surprisingly modern, and full of interesting details
Comment: i picked this book up from a homeless bookseller in manhattan for a dollar, figuring it might be worth a try. and it was - i read the whole thing!
it's major pluses: it's written in a surprisingly modern style. i've read other travelogues of the time period, like melville's omoo and typee and others, and this one was FAR better. perhaps it's that the author is not pompous or trying too hard to be "literary." he tries a little bit, but mostly he just sticks to the facts and tells the story. and the story on its own is interesting enough - travelling all around eastern siberia with wandering natives on dogsleds and reindeer sleds, living in yurts and eating funky foods, starving at times, camping under snowdrifts at fifty below zero, and mostly just observing and interacting with native peoples who (i have a strange feelings) may not even exist any more. and all this set in the backdrop of such an interesting time period in our history - just after the U.S. Civil War.
other point of food for thought: the guy did his travels at AGE TWENTY!!!, and wrote and published the entire book by age 25! this strikes me as quite odd, because his whole style is...so mature...and intellectual. you'd think you're reading a book by a forty year old (at least). and to this that seven years before he travelled to siberia...he was just thirteen.
anyway, all in all a good and interesting book, good in a way for light historical reading, but nothing to shock your boots off...
Rating: 4
Summary: Footnote in history makes for an exciting adventure.
Comment: Telegraph operator George Kennan signs on to build a telegraph line across Siberia in late 1800s. Very good American example of understated adventure writing, a genre probably perfected by the British.
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Title: A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990 by James Forsyth ISBN: 0521477719 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: East of the Sun: The Epic Conquest and Tragic History of Siberia by Benson Bobrick ISBN: 0671667556 Publisher: Poseidon Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia by Anna Reid ISBN: 0802713998 Publisher: Walker & Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum ISBN: 0767900561 Publisher: Doubleday Books Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks ISBN: 0142001430 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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