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Tent Life in Siberia

Tent Life in Siberia

by George Kennan  •  Larry McMurtry (Introduction)

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 425 PAGES

Kennan's spirited account of the people, cultures and harsh terrain of Kamchatka and the Russian Far East, originally published in 1871, is also a suspenseful tale of a doomed attempt to link Asia and America by telegraph through Siberia.  (RUS142, $17.95)

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