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Tent Life in Siberia

by George Kennan

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Preface

Chapter III — The Picturesque Coast of Kamchatka — Arrival in Petropavlovsk

Chapter V — First Attempt to Learn Russian — Plan of Exploration — Division of Party

Chapter VI — A Cossack Wedding — The Peninsula of Kamchatka

Chapter VIII — Bridle Paths of Southern Kamchatka — Houses and Food of the People — Reindeer Tongues and Wild-Rose Petals — A Kamchatkan Driver’s Canticle

Chapter XV — Cut Off by Storm — Starvation Threatened — Race With a Rising Tide — Two Days With Food — Return to Lesnoi

Chapter XVII — A Fresh Start — Crossing the Samanka Mouns on a Korak Encampment — Nomads and Their Tents — Door-Holes and Dogs — Pologs — Korak Bread

Chapter XXVIII — A Sledge Journey Eastward — Reaching Tidewater — A Night Search for a Stove-Pipe — Finding Comrades — A Voice From a Stove — Story of the Anadyr Party

Chapter XXXI — Last Work of the Winter — Birds and Flowers of Spring — Continuous Daylight — Social Life in Gizhiga — A Curious Sickness — Summer Days and Nights — News From America

Chapter XXXVIII

Closing Up the Business—a Bargain Sale—telegraph Teacups Reduced—cheap Shovels for Grave-Digging—wire Fish Nets at a Sacrifice—our Narrowest Escape—blown Out to Sea—saved by the “Onward”

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