Download or read book From Siberia to St Kitts written by Ira Sumner Simmonds and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the tumultuous and unexpected life of Zenaida Katzen, Simmonds' biography weaves disparate threads from Russia, China, Chile, France, and St. Kitts-Nevis into a vibrant tapestry revealing a surprising and exceptional woman. Stepping outside of the spinster-teacher archetype, Katzen's story is one of a complicated, fiercely independent woman whose decades of unwavering dedication and commitment to the education of children across the globe belie an intriguing, unpredictable and, at times, inexplicable personal life.
Download or read book A Journey Into Siberia written by abbé Chappe d'Auteroche and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Siberia the New Frontier written by George St. George and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Traveler written by James Zug and published by . This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called a "man of genius" by his close friend Thomas Jefferson, John Ledyard lived, by any standard, a remarkable life. In his thirty-eight years, he accompanied Captain Cook on his last voyage; befriended Jefferson, Lafayette, and Tom Paine in Paris; was the first American citizen to see Alaska, Hawaii, and the west coast of America; and set out to find the source of the Niger by traveling from Cairo across the Sahara. His greatest dream, concocted with Jefferson, was to travel alone around the world and cross the American continent from the Pacific Northwest to the Atlantic. Catherine the Great dashed that dream when she had him arrested in deepest Siberia and escorted back to the Polish border. Ledyard wrote the definitive account of Cook's last voyage and his death at the hands of Hawaiian islanders, and formed a company with John Paul Jones that launched the American fur trade in the Pacific Northwest.Before the Revolution, Americans by and large didn't travel great distances, rarely venturing west of the Appalachians. Ledyard, with his boundless enthusiasm and wide-ranging intellect, changed all that. In lively prose, journalist James Zug tells the riveting story of this immensely influential character -a Ben Franklin with wanderlust-a uniquely American pioneer.
Download or read book The Siberian Matter written by Charles Hays and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-01-17 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the tug of war games between Russia and the USA over some critical toxins that are being produced for deadly chemical warfare. The story includes the pawns that discover or produce new poisons that the world does not need or really want. But, like everything else, when push comes to shove, they have to make toxins because we also make poisons. That fierce competition between the two Nations is what can lead to war or utter chaos. This book doesnt deal with war itself but it is involved with the pre-war part which could initiate World War III, quite easily. Our three heroes, Nicolas Haig, Carlos Espinosa and General Sarma Goldbond are back to travel the World and to save its inhabitants. They are hired to rescue the one man who knows all the secrets about Ricin and Abrin. This man was kidnapped by Russian agents and is being held against his will in Siberia at Lake Baikal.
Download or read book The Real Siberia written by John Foster Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of the author's personal impressions of a journey across Siberia and through Manchuria in the autumn of 1901. He endeavours to show that the Siberia of convicts and prisons is passing away, and the Siberia of the reaping mahcine, the gold drill, the timber yard, and the booming, flourishing new town is awakening into life. -- Foreword.
Download or read book Through Siberia Classic Reprint written by Henry Lansdell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Through Siberia It has been comparatively easy, therefore, in England for writers to exaggerate on this subject almost as they pleased, because scarcely any one could contradict them. Comparatively few travellers cross Northern Asia to the Amur. I doubt if any author has pre ceded me. Probably also I was the first foreigner ever allowed to go through the Siberian prisons and mines. Perhaps none before have asked permission. That I obtained such an authorization astonished my friends, though the open manner in which the letter was granted seemed to show that the authorities had nothing to hide. A master-key was put into my hand that opened every door. I went where I would, and almost when I would; and on no single occasion was admission refused, though often applied for at a moment's notice. Statistics also were freely given me; but this was not so writ in the bond. An after thought, in Siberia, emboldened me to ask for them in various places, and they were usually furnished then and there. All these are displayed before the reader. I have exaggerated nothing, -kept nothing back. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Index to the Periodicals of 1890 1902 written by The Review of reviews and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Journey Into Siberia written by abbé Chappe d'Auteroche and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Siberia and Central Asia Classic Reprint written by John W. Bookwalter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Siberia and Central Asia This book is the result of a trip through Si beria and Central Asia, made by the author dur ing the summer and autumn of last year. It con sists mostly of letters written by him while on the journey, which were published by several Western newspapers. Owing to the great and increasing importance of the Eastern Question, the author has thought that it might be of interest to his friends to have these letters put into a more permanent form, illustrated by many views taken by him at that time. These views in themselves may, perhaps, be his best excuse for the book, as they give a better and clearer idea of these great regions than any words of his can convey. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Directory Chronicle for China Japan Corea Indo China Straits Settlements Malay States Siam Netherlands India Borneo the Philippines c written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With which are incorporated "The China directory" and "The Hongkong directory and Hong list for the Far East" ...
Download or read book Siberia written by Srikala Balakrishnan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was Russia built? How did she become so enormous? The answer would be the acquisition of Siberia led to the expansion of territory for Russia. How was Siberia conquered? In what stages did the expansion across Asia take place? Did the Russians encounter opposition from China? This books addresses these questions which rise in the mind on seeing a map of the world. The stages by which Russia shook of the Mongol yoke and proceeded to expand her domains are traced. How in the first stage she unified and then conquered the Muslim khanates of Kazan and Sibir, and then proceeded to expand across Asia are examined. The pull of the fur trade drew trappers and with them Russian dominion right across Asia. How a conflict with China led to Russian exploration in the northeast and the eventual discovery of Alaska is also dealt with. The names of unknown Russian adventurers and explorers emerge whose conquests and discoveries led to vast new territories being opened out. We all know how the west was won but few know how the east was won. The conquistadors of the east were no better than those of the west. If America was populated by Red Indians who were the native inhabitants of Siberia? The book addresses these questions too. The Great Northern Expedition an enterprise in scientific research and cartography undertaken by the government of Tsarist Russia in the eighteenth century is also traced. So too are the voyages of Vitus Bering leading to the discovery of Russian America.
Download or read book Siberia and the Exile System written by George Kennan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American journalist's unflinching account, published in two volumes in 1891, of Russia's brutal penal system in Siberia.
Download or read book Cosmos and Colonialism written by Rex Clark and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander von Humboldt explored the Spanish Empire on the verge of its collapse (1799–1804). He is the most significant German travel writer and the most important mediator between Europe and the Americas of the nineteenth century. His works integrated knowledge from two dozen domains. Today, he is at the center of debates on imperial discourse, postcolonialism, and globalization. This collection of fifty essays brings together a range of responses, many presented here for the first time in English. Authors from Schiller, Chateaubriand, Sarmiento, and Nietzsche, to Robert Musil, Kurt Tucholsky, Ernst Bloch, and Alejo Carpentier paint the historical background. Essays by contemporary travel writers and recent critics outline the current controversies on Humboldt. The source materials collected here will be indispensable to scholars of German, French, and Latin and North American literature as well as cultural and postcolonial studies, history, art history, and the history of science.
Download or read book Epitome of Geographical Knowledge Ancient and Modern written by Commissioners of National Education in Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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