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The Russo-American Telegraph Project of 1865-7 was truly
monumental. Although plans to lay cable from San Francisco to
Moscow via Alaska and Siberia were superseded by the laying of the
sub-Atlantic cable, one of the benefits of the enterprise was the
knowledge of the area gained by those engineers and explorers sent
out to assess the task. Publication of their experiences and
travels followed and one such work was this journal by Richard
James Bush, first published in 1871 by Harper & Brothers,
describing his adventures in Siberia between 1865 and 1867. Bush
makes it clear that this is not a scientific account, but a travel
narrative containing observations of his time in the Kamchatka
Peninsula and the area of Siberia by the Sea of Okhotsk, of herding
deer and life in the tundra. The engagingly written book is
illustrated with fine drawings of the region by Bush himself.
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