Reindeer, Dogs, and Snow-Shoes: A Journal of Siberian Travel and Explorations Made in the Years 1865,...

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Richard James Bush

Reindeer, Dogs, and Snow-Shoes

A Journal of Siberian Travel and Explorations Made in the Years 1865, 1866 and 1867

Richard James Bush

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English

Cambridge University Press
26 April 2012

European history; Geographical discovery & exploration; Expeditions

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration

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 Although plans to lay cable from San Francisco to Moscow via Alaska and Siberia were superseded by the laying of the sub-Atlantic cable, one of the benefits of the enterprise was the knowledge of the area gained by those engineers and explorers sent out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.

By: Richard James Bush
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 670g
ISBN: 9781108049740
ISBN 10: 1108049745
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
Pages: 536
Publication Date: 26 April 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface; 1. Object of the expedition; 2. Major Abasa's plan; 3. Good-by; 4. At Tedervosk; 5. Kada; 6. Nikolayefsk; 7. Departure from Nikolayefsk; 8. Packing up; 9. En route; 10.Approaching Tugur; 11. Approaching Solavaoff's; 12. Swartz's blunder; 13. Russian steam bath; 14. A Russian parting; 15. Indications of a poorga; 16. Remarkable endurance of natives; 17. Our good fortune; 18. Anxiety to start; 19. Alarming considerations; 20. Herding deer; 21. Another journey; 22. Tausk; 23. Departure from Toumane; 24. Departure from Ghijigha; 25. More tundra; 26. Crepast; 27. Proposed voyage; 28. From Oochostika; 29. Life at Camp Macrae; 30. Anxiety; 31. Telegraph-building under difficulties; 32. Zeal of the men; 33. Down the Myan in a carbass; Meteorological tables.