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Across the Ussuri Kray - Travels in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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Across the Ussuri Kray - Travels in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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In Russia's Far East sits the wild Ussuri Kray, a region known for
its remote highlands and rugged mountain passes where tigers and
bears roam the cliffs, and salmon and lenok navigate the rivers. In
this collection of travel writing by famed Russian explorer and
naturalist Vladimir K. Arsenyev (1872-1930), readers are shuttled
back to the turn of the 20th century when the Russian Empire was
reeling from its defeat in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) and
vulnerable to its Far Eastern neighbors. What began as an
expedition to survey the region's infrastructure for the Russian
military turned into an adventure through a territory rich in
ethnic and ecological diversity. Encountering the disappearing
indigenous cultures of the Nanai and Udege, engaging the help of
Korean farmers and Chinese hunters, and witnessing the beginning of
indomitable Russian settlement, Arsenyev documents the lives and
customs of the region's inhabitants and their surroundings.
Originally written as "a popular scientific description of the
Kray," this unabridged edition includes photographs largely unseen
for nearly a century and is annotated by Jonathan C. Slaght, a
biologist working in the same forests Arsenyev explored. Across the
Ussuri Kray is a classic of northeast Asian cultural and natural
history.
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