The man who loved Siberia : the adventures of a natural historian /

The man who loved Siberia : the adventures of a natural historian /

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Author / Creator:	Jacobsen, Roy, author.
Uniform title:	Mannen som elsket sibir. English.
Imprint:	London : Maclehose Press, 2023. ©2023
Description:	302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Dörries, Fritz -- Travel -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia. Travel Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel. Russia (Federation) -- Siberia Travel writing. Biographies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13473057

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Other authors / contributors:	Pitz, Anneliese, author. Kinsella, Seán, translator
ISBN:	1529413036 9781529413038 9781529413045
Notes:	First published 2020. Translated from Norwegian
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 fathoms deep - every danger was faced head on and overcome. And yet he remained defenceless against the charms of the landscape, and the animals, birds and butterflies he found there. Through his twenty-two years in Siberia, Dorries collected a wealth of essential material for scientific institutions, fundamental to our understanding of fauna and flora. This account of his adventures, set down for his daughters in his ninetieth year, and adapted for publication by Roy Jacobsen and Anneliese Pitz, is his second great legacy"--Publisher's description.
Other form:	ebook version : 9781529413045

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