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A Siberian Journey - The Journal of Hans Jakob Fries, 1774 -1776 (Paperback)
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A Siberian Journey - The Journal of Hans Jakob Fries, 1774 -1776 (Paperback)
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First published in 1955 in German, this journal, published here in
English for the first time, describes the adventures of a young
Swiss surgeon who sought his fortune in eighteenth-century Russia,
where he eventually made his mark and rose to a high position. The
journal covers his journey to Southern Russia and his service there
during the campaigns of 1770-74, and gives a day-by-day account of
his trip through Siberia to the Chinese borders as a surgeon
assisting a recruiting officer. Fries' simple, straightforward and
fresh narrative provides a vivid, human introduction to the
little-known land and people of Siberia. In contrast to the more
scientific specialist works of other eighteenth-century discoverers
in Siberia, Fries' account conveys the special lure of the country,
with lively descriptions of the ordinary life of its inhabitants,
of the town and countryside, of nature, people, customs and
impressions. Their travels took the two companions through all of
Siberia to the very borders of China, and we gain a valuable
glimpse of the relations between Russians and Chinese at the time.
Along the way we also meet numerous westerners whom a strange fate
had brought to this isolated, enigmatic land. To Fries' text is
added a wide-ranging introduction by Professor Kirchner, which
gives an account of the pioneering foreign scientists and tourists
who travelled in Siberia during the century following the death of
Peter the Great in 1725. Professor Kirchner traces the routes of
their journeys, and describes the written works, some of them now
classics, which ensued. The introduction thus provides an
up-to-date bibliographical guide to the more elaborate and
scholarly works which are supplemented by the new perspective on
political and daily life in Siberia provided by the journal of Hans
Jakob Fries.
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