In 1865 the young American George Kennan sailed to Kamchatka with a party surveying a route for the Russian-American overland telegraph meant to link America and Europe through Siberia. His narrative covers the voyage in a Russian brig, a Cossack wedding, long winter journeys by dog sled and reindeer among the Koraks and other peoples, and frozen nights in skin tents.
One of the great nineteenth-century travel books, in print for decades after it appeared in 1870. Download the free EPUB.