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Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia (Paperback)
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Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration, Volume 2
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John Bell (1691 1780) trained as a physician, but preferred a life
of travel and diplomacy. He entered the service of Tsar Peter the
Great of Russia, and had already taken part (as the expedition's
doctor) in a government mission to Persia in 1715 18 when he was
asked to join a further embassy to China. This two-volume work,
published in 1763, describes both these journeys. Volume 2 takes up
the story with the embassy's reception in Beijing, with accounts of
the Chinese emperor and his court, and the return journey. It also
includes the journal of Lorenz Lange (c.1690 1752), a Swede in
Russian service who was an agent at the court of Beijing at the
time of Bell's own mission, and short accounts of Bell's later
visits to Derbent on the Caspian Sea, and to Constantinople. This
is a delightful account of an area then hardly known in the west."
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