Siberian journey : down the Amur to the Pacific, 1856-1857 / by Perry McDonough Collins ; edited with an introduction by Charles Vevier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Perry McDonough, 1813-1900.

Contributor:

Vevier, Charles.

Standardized Title:

A voyage down the Amoor. [from old catalog]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Siberia (Russia)--Description and travel.

Siberia (Russia).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Editors Note

Preface to A Voyage Down the Amoor

I. Departure for Siberia

II. From Moscow to Nijne-Novgorod

III. Nijne-Novgorod-The Great Fair

VI. From Nijne to Ekaterinburg

V. From Ekaterinburg to Omsk

VI. From Omsk to Irkutsk

VII. Irkutsk

VIII. From Irkutsk to Kyachta

IX. Kyachta, Mai-Mat-Tschin, and the Feast of Lanterns

X. A Russian Dinner

XI. From Irkutsk to Petrovskey

XII. From Petrovskey to Verchne-Udinsk

XIII. From Verchne-Udinsk to Chetah

XIV. A Visit to the Mines of Nerchinsk

XV. The Silver Mines of Zarentunskie

XVI. The Cossacks of the Argoon

XVII. The Gold Mines of the Onon

XVIII. Passage of Mount Bornorskoy

XIX. Residence at Chetah

XX. A Wild-Goose Chase

XXI..Departure from Chetah

XXII. Down the Ingodah

XXIII. A Mineral Spring

XXIV. From Bankin to Schilkah

XXV. From Schilkah to Ouse-Cherney

XXVI. From Russian into Chinese Waters

XXVII. First View of the Amoor

XXVIII. From Ouse-Strelkah to Albasin

XXIX. On the River

XXX. A Mangoon Camp

XXXI. Manchoo Visitors

XXXII. A Manchoo Guard-Boat

XXXIII. Arrival at Igoon

XXXIV. Manchoo Spies

XXXV. A Manchoo Village

XXXVI. A Tartar Beauty

XXXVII. Manchoo Junks

XXXVIII. The Songahree

XXXIX. Russian Progress

XL. Floating Along

XLI .The Navigation

XLII. Native Villages

XLIII .The Hongahree

XLIV. A Goldee Village

XLV. Female Sailors

XLVI. A Night of Danger

XLVII. Ancient Monuments

XLVIII. Arrival at Nikolaivsky

XLIX.Nikolaivsky

L. American Residents

LI. Character of the Amoor Country

LII. Natives on the Amoor

LIII. Trade and Resources of Siberia

LIV. Voyage to Japan

LV. Hakodadi

LVI. To Kamschatka

LVII. Stay at Petropaulosky

A Note on the Sources

Index

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Perry McDonough Collins

Ancient Tartar Monument Facing page

MAPS

Northern Asia and the Pacific Coast of the United States

Province of Trans-Baikal

Amoor River.

Notes:

A new ed. of A voyage down the Amoor.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613485861

9781283485869

1283485869

9780299026738

0299026736

OCLC:

787844282