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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: Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia 2 Volume Set, Volume 1
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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. The first part of
Volume 1 contains an account of the Persian expedition, and the
second a narrative of the journey across Siberia to the walls of
Beijing. It includes fascinating anecdotes of the peoples
encountered, and their environment, beliefs and customs, including
a female Siberian shaman, the pet musk deer of an exiled Swedish
general, and the interdependence of marmots and rhubarb (at this
time a valuable medicinal drug). This is a delightful account of an
area then hardly known in the west."
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