The real Siberia : together with an account of a dash through Manchuria / by John Foster Fraser
1902, First edition. London, New York : Cassell. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Frontispiece is accompanied by a guard sheet. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #343000
Physical description: xvi, 279 pages illustrations, map, plates, portrait 20 cm. Contents: The start from Moscow -- Over the Ural Mountains -- Through a great lone land -- In a Siberian town -- Siberia as an agricultural country -- A caravanserai for orgies -- Vagrant notes by the way -- The Paris of Siberia -- In Irkutsk Prison -- Sunday in Siberia -- Trade and some trifles -- Across the great Lake Baikal -- The California of Siberia -- Down the Shilka and Amur Rivers -- The black crime of Blagovestchensk -- Some companions and some tales -- The land's end of Siberia -- A plunge into the forbidden land of Manchuria -- A Manchurian "boom" town -- Suspected and arrested -- In a corner of Mongolia -- A cold drive to a great prison -- The homeward journey and some opinions. Subjects: Travel. Siberia (Russia) Description and travel. Manchuria (China) Description and travel. China Manchuria.
Russia (Federation) Siberia. Genre: Illustrated. Summary: A chronicle of the author's personal impressions of a journey across Siberia and through Manchuria in the autumn of 1901. He endeavours to show that the Siberia of convicts and prisons is passing away, and the Siberia of the reaping mahcine, the gold drill, the timber yard, and the booming, flourishing new town is awakening into life.
Price: €60.00