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On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers
by Kate Marsden
- TRAVEL NARRATIVE
- 2001
- PAPER
- 256 PAGES
- OUT OF PRINT
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Certainly one of the most outlandish of the Victorian travelogues, this classic chronicles Marsden's 3,000-mile journey from St. Petersburg to the Viluisk leper colony in Siberia. Marsden, who had nursed Russian soldiers in Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish war, seems to have been fired by missionary zeal, dispensing religion, tea and bandages as though they were all three medical supplies. Her book is a lively tale of adventure and a fascinating report on Siberia (not to mention 19-century attitudes toward leprosy). First published in 1893.
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