Tent Life in Siberia (Dodo Press) (Paperback)

from Ella_Jill

When the first attempt to lay a telegraph cable under the Atlantic had failed, it was proposed to build an overland line to Europe via Alaska, Bering's Straits and Siberia. There already was a line from the mouth of the Amur river to Europe, and so the Russo-American Telegraph Company needed the ...

from ben_a

Remarkable juxtaposition of a good humored and erudite narrator with a harrowing tale of travel and labor in the wilds of Kamchatka. Crammed with incident, hardship, narrow escapes, extreme weather, ethnography, and simple observation of a place and time unimaginably distant from out own.

from jslefferts

An absorbing and articulate account of Kennan's two year journey through Siberia while researching a way to lay a trans-Atlantic overland telegraph cable.

from untraveller

Read the 1910 edition. A superb read about toughing it out in Siberia while trying to get the telegraph going. Witty as well as informative.

from Ella_Jill

When the first attempt to lay a telegraph cable under the Atlantic had failed, it was proposed to build an overland line to Europe via Alaska, Bering's Straits and Siberia. There already was a line from the mouth of the Amur river to Europe, and so the Russo-American Telegraph Company needed the ...