Perry McDonough Collins

Reprint of the original, first published in 1864. Incidental notices of Manchooria, Mongolia, Kamschatka, and Japan, with map and plan of and overland telegraph around the world, via Behring's Strait and Asiatic Russia to Europe.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1864. Incidental notices of Manchooria, Mongolia, Kamschatka, and Japan, with map and plan of and overland telegraph around the world, via Behring's Strait and Asiatic Russia to Europe.

Perry McDonough Collins was the first American to journey through Siberia and down the 2,690-mile Amur River to the Pacific Ocean. In 1860 he wrote A Voyage Down the Amoor, an account of his adventures, and his book proved so popular that it was reissued in 1864. Siberian Journey consists of Collins s original text framed by an interpretive introduction and explanatory notes by Charles Vevier, providing an extensive, first-hand account of Russia s land and its people in the mid nineteenth century."