The Man Who Loved Siberia
$38.85
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
10 December 2024
Summary
Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land.
Fritz Dorries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when there were still blank spaces on maps of the world. Travelling alone or with his brothers, he climbed mountains, traversed great rivers, explored remote islands and crossed treacherous lakes of ice, always with one purpose: to augment man’s knowledge of the natural world.
Bears, tigers, vipers, bandits, stormy seas, frostbite, ice chasms fath…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529413052 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529413052 |
| Author: | Roy Jacobsen, Anneliese Pitz, Sean Kinsella |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 10 December 2024 |
| Weight: | 229g |
| Dimensions: | 194mm x 128mm x 22mm |
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A captivating and fascinating tale from The Wild East that Siberia once was. Pitz and Jacobsen bring Dörries’ strenuous adventures to life in beautiful prose. This book is a true gem that deserves many readers – Erika FatlandA captivating tale from a long-lost world – Anna ReidBoth a thrilling adventure story and a lyrical record of wild nature, this is a unique portrait of frontier life and attitudes in Siberia and the Russian Far East at a time when few foreigners had penetrated the region so deeply. Dorries’ real-life tales, from the hair-raising to the transcendent, match anything from the American West – Tom Parfitt, author of High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted HinterlandA captivating and fascinating tale from The Wild East that Siberia once was. Pitz and Jacobsen bring Dörries’ strenuous adventures to life in beautiful prose. This book is a true gem that deserves many readers – Erika Fatland
About The Author
Roy Jacobsen
Roy Jacobsen is one of Norway’s most internationally renowned writers. His novel The Unseen, a phenomenal bestseller in his own country, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017.
Anneliese Pitz came to Norway from Belgium in 1974. She has a PhD in linguistics from Trondheim and has been teaching for 24 years at Oslo University.
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