Download or read book Siberian Stowaway written by Constance W. Langtry and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Trans Siberian Railway written by Deborah Manley and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No railway journey on Earth can equal the Trans-Siberian between Moscow and Vladivostock. It is not just its vast length and the great variety of the lands and climes through which it passes. It is not just its history as the line that linked the huge territories which are Russia together. It is a dream which calls countless travellers to the adventure of the longest railway in the world. From the birth aboard of Rudolf Nureyev to the childhood obsession with the railway of Lesley Blanch, to the weariness that eventually overcame Paul Theroux, to the excitement of the author's own journey, this revised and updated collection of travellers' accounts brings together emotions, descriptions and humour from a century of travel. This new edition of a classic anthology takes us through the tremendous achievement of the railway’s construction across harsh, unsettled lands through the earliest journeys of Western travellers and the trains on which they travelled, and their descriptions of fellow travellers, food, scenery, domestic arrangements, adventures on and off the train, convicts, revolution and war as the train carried them through a lonely, lovely landscape. The barrier of Lake Baikal was crossed by a British-built ice-breaker, put together on the lakeside until the link around the deep water and through the first tunnels of the route was completed. The railway played – and still plays – a huge part in holding this vast country together.

Download or read book Siberian Light written by Robin White and published by Island Books. This book was released on 1998-11-10 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the vivid backdrop of a country replacing corrupt communism with an equally corrupt capitalism, the geologist-turned-mayor of Markovo becomes obsessed with a grisly murder. Ordered to investigate, Mayor Gregori Nowek, no detective, soon finds himself in a labyrinth of deception that nevertheless begins to yield clues that point first toward a scientist studying the nearly extinct Siberian tiger, the beautiful Dr. Anna Vereskaya and ultimately towards an American-financed oil exploration venture.

Download or read book A Pedestrian Journey Through Russia and Siberian Tartary written by John Dundas Cochrane and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Pedestrain Journey Through Russia and Siberian Tartary written by John Dundas Cochrane and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey Through Russia and Siberian Tartary written by John Dundas Cochrane and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey Through Russia and Siberian Tartary from the Frontiers of China to the Frozen Sea and Kamtschatka written by John Dundas Cochrane and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary written by John Dundas Cochrane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1824 account of Cochrane's travels across Europe, Russia and Siberia is full of interesting anecdotes and observations.

Download or read book Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey Through Russia and Siberian Tartary from the Frontiers of China to the Frozen Sea and Kamtchatka Performed During the Years 1820 1823 written by John Dundas Cochrane and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The New Sunday Times Travel Book written by Richard Girling and published by Salem House Publishers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Emma Goldman and the Russian Revolution written by Frank Jacob and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What impact did Bolshevist rule have on Emma Goldmans’s perception of the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and why did she change her mind, going from defending the Russian Revolution to becoming a crusader against Bolshevism? The Russian Revolution changed the world and determined the history of the 20th century as the French Revolution had determined the history of the 19th century. Left-wing intellectuals around the world greeted the February Revolution with enthusiasm as their hope for a new world and social order and the end of capitalism seemed close. However, the joy did not last long as the ideals of February 1917 were replaced by the realities of October 1917 and Lenin crushed the revolution during the following Civil War. Emma Goldman, a famous Russian-born American anarchist was one of the intellectuals, whose admiration for the revolution turned into frustration about its corruption. Emma Goldman and the Russian Revolution discusses her evolving perception of the revolution between 1917 and the early 1920s. The analysis of such an intellectual transformation process, provides a case study of intellectual and revolutionary history alike, adding a closer reading to the research about the famous American anarchist, Emma Goldman, her transnational life and her role as a revolutionary intellectual.

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Download or read book The Lost Pianos of Siberia written by Sophy Roberts and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “melodious” mix of music, history, and travelogue “reveals a story inextricably linked to the drama of Russia itself . . . These pages sing like a symphony.” —The Wall Street Journal Siberia’s story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies, and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell. Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos—grand instruments created during the boom years of the nineteenth century, as well as humble Soviet-made uprights that found their way into equally modest homes. They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian culture under the westernizing influence of Catherine the Great, piano music has run through the country like blood. How these pianos traveled into this snowbound wilderness in the first place is testament to noble acts of fortitude by governors, adventurers, and exiles. Siberian pianos have accomplished extraordinary feats, from the instrument that Maria Volkonsky, wife of an exiled Decembrist revolutionary, used to spread music east of the Urals, to those that brought reprieve to the Soviet Gulag. That these instruments might still exist in such a hostile landscape is remarkable. That they are still capable of making music in far-flung villages is nothing less than a miracle. The Lost Pianos of Siberia follows Roberts on a three-year adventure as she tracks a number of instruments to find one whose history is definitively Siberian. Her journey reveals a desolate land inhabited by wild tigers and deeply shaped by its dark history, yet one that is also profoundly beautiful—and peppered with pianos. “An elegant and nuanced journey through literature, through history, through music, murder and incarceration and revolution, through snow and ice and remoteness, to discover the human face of Siberia. I loved this book.” —Paul Theroux

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